Tag: State Funding

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Why is Homelessness Increasing?

By: Diane Benjamin This story epitomizes why people flee Illinois and ignore local media: https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2025-07-07/housing-funding-cut-in-illinois-budget-as-homelessness-increases Title: Housing funding cut in Illinois budget as homelessness increases Illinois just passed the biggest budget ever – $55.1 billion. Excerpt: “Last year homelessness increased 116% in the state of Illinois,” Doug Kenshol, co-founder of the Illinois Shelter Alliance, told […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Connect Transit – Year End

By:  Diane Benjamin The CT Board held a meeting on 7/28/2020.  No financial information was included in the packet because June was the end of their fiscal year. That doesn’t mean other information wasn’t included in the packet:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/13_-iBZ8DuPQ_3Or2S90fgHrWo9JhJ1Wf/view PDF page 3 shows customers were down 13.6% for the year July 1, 2019 – June […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

The final story for Normal Monday night – Connect Transit

By:  Diane Benjamin Other items from Monday’s meeting could be covered, but I won’t!  Links to all previous stories are here:  https://blnnews.com/2020/07/08/story-6-normal-monday/ Isaac Thorne and Julie Hile made a presentation.  Start with this screen shot: Thorne proved Pritzker’s budget is a joke by relying on a $5 billion bailout from the Feds AND the citizens […]