Paying off a lot of these outstanding debts. Dan Hynes, a former state comptroller who is Pritzker’s point person on the state budget. “If you take a snapshot of where we are right now, I think we have a lot to be proud of,” said Deputy Gov. Is Illinois back? Or is this seeming moment of financial stability a blip, a fiscal sugar high destined to fade in a year or two? JB Pritzker fully funds big priorities, lacks some of the familiar accounting gimmicks of years past and appears balanced.
And a $42 billion state budget soon headed to Democratic Gov. Vendors are being paid at a faster pace than at any point in the past 20 years. But as the state heads out of the pandemic, preparing for a full reopening Friday, it is flush with federal COVID-19 relief cash.
