61 social service agencies are continuing their legal fight over the Illinois budget impasse.
The social services suing the State of Illinois do a range of work… from consulting victims of rape, to helping senior citizens who live at home.
They all had a contract with the state to do that work. And they say because there’s been no full state budget - they’re owed money - and there’s “no coherent rationale” for the state’s failure to pay them.
Earlier - a Cook County judge disagreed - and ruled the state did not have to pay up. Attorneys for the state argued judges don’t have the power to create a budget; lawmakers and the governor do that.
But - the governor and Democratic leaders have not been negotiating a new state budget at all. The current spending plan expires in 9 days.