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Illinois Begins Road Worker Layoffs

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The men and women who build Illinois roads for a living were sent home Monday or told not to come in at all due to the still unresolved state budget fiasco in Illinois.

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Budgetless Illinois Road Construction Shutdown Would Cost $345 Million Per Week

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With no state budget in place - again - all highway and bridge construction work will be shut down June 30, according to a June 14 statement from IDOT. Above: The IDOT Shutdown puts nearly 43,000 Illinois jobs at risk. These are the sectors that will be impacted.

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Illinois Road Construction Dodges Shutdown

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Using its worst-in-nation credit rating, Illinois agreed to pay $12 million to borrow $550 million Thursday to head off the July 1 funding cut off for mass transit and road construction projects. States with good credit - and functiona budgets - pay around 2 percent.

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Is Amazon Eating Our Road Budgets?

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Judith Crown of the Better Government Association , a watchdog group in Illinois, raises an interesting issue in her latest article.

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After Illinois Misses Budget Deadline, Road and Bridge Projects Shut Down

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The June 30th deadline to pass a state budget, the first in three years, came and went over the weekend and now idled road projects will almost certainly cost the taxpayers more.

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Illinois Budget Impasse Continues Even as Progress is Made and Road Projects Are Shut Down

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billion in highway and bridge construction spending on 900 active projects in Illinois is currently shut down due to the continued impasse over a state budget.

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Illinois Misses Deadline, State Road/Bridge Projects Have Been Shut Down

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The June 30th deadline to pass a state budget, the first in three years, came and went over the weekend and now idled road projects will almost certainly cost the taxpayers more.

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