Illinois state lawmakers on Wednesday came no closer to a deal on compromise budget plan that includes business-friendly changes to the workers’ comp system, but one lawmaker has introduced legislation that would keep the government up and running with money borrowed from the Workers’ Compensation Commission and other sources.
House Bill 1798 would take $886,000 from the commission’s Operations Fund — and millions more from similar funds scattered throughout state government — and use it to pay salaries as a 19-month-old budget impasse between Republican...
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