CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday approved the state's first construction spending plan in over a decade - a $31 billion infusion expec...
AP | Posted 08.09.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that he plans to sign long-delayed legislation creating a huge public works program to help the...
Daily Herald | Dan Carden | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago
A $9 billion program of shovel-ready road construction projects that was supposed to create up to 80,000 jobs in Illinois this summer has been delayed...
AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is using a monstrous state construction bill, desperately wanted by lawmakers to fix roads and schoo...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois lawmakers approved a massive public works program Thursday, presenting Gov. Pat Quinn with the difficult decision o...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois Senate voted Wednesday to raise liquor taxes, expand gambling and increase driver fees to help pay for a $26 bi...
Chicago Tribune | Susan Kuczka and Richard Wronski | Posted 05.06.2009 | Chicago
One of Chicago's worst pothole-scarred streets was selected as the backdrop Saturday for Gov. Pat Quinn and Mayor Richard Daley to outline nearly $200...
AP | Posted 05.04.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a construction program aimed at putting people back to work while lawmakers hash out a much larger public works program. Of...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago
Governor Pat Quinn suggested Monday that legislators follow his lead and take a voluntary pay cut as the state combats a nearly $11 billion deficit (v...
Associated Press | Posted 04.09.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Pat Quinn has put a dollar figure on Illinois' homegrown effort to stimulate the economy. Gov. Pat Quinn says he wants to spend $25 billion on w...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago