SPRINGFIELD — Illinois House Democrats began pushing Tuesday for their own plan to provide an overhaul of the Chicago region’s mass transit systems, holding firm against plans to install a new fee on food deliveries and a real estate transfer tax and floating a menu of potential options to raise $1.5 billion in new revenue.

With time running short in the General Assembly’s fall veto session yet needing to pass some legislation to stave off job cuts and service reductions , key House Democratic negotiators said they were weighing several alternatives to the fees and taxes included in a bill that cleared the Senate in the eleventh hour this spring but failed to pass the House .

Among the ideas the Democratic-led House was considering included a sales tax, a tax on streaming services an

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