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Illinois lawmakers are on a fast-track schedule in an election-year session as they attempt to pass a budget and complete other tasks against an early April adjournment date.
The June primary election will hover over Illinois' legislative session as lawmakers try to finish a budget and other work by April. Here's a look at the tasks they face.
State Sen. Jil Tracy said she has asked the General Assembly’s Democratic and Republican leaders to help resolve the impasse but hasn’t heard back.
How Artist Ellen Altfest Built a Fully Functioning Studio Outdoors—and Manages to Resist Cell-Phone Distractions While Painting There The artist’s current show of watercolors is on view now at White Cube. Ellen Altfest. © Vincent Dillio. Ellen Altfest paints her subjects—gourds, armpits, male anatomy—in such painstakingly fine detail that it can take months, or even years, to realize a single composition. In recent years, Altfest, who is based in New York, has increasingly turned her eye toward the natural world, painting scenes of moss, trees, and other features of her outdoor envir...