Democrats flexed muscles in passing out pork in Springfield

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his fellow Illinois Democrats approved more than $150 million in the current state budget for local projects hand-picked by their party, a power play over Republicans that is unusual in scope and secrecy even in the history of Springfield’s chronic partisan gamesmanship. In a state known for negotiating local pork-barrel project funds in at least somewhat of a bipartisan ...

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