SPRINGFIELD — Gov JB Pritzker on Wednesday poured cold water on taxing streaming services, billionaires, adding fees to tickets for large sporting events or concerts and allowing speed cameras to populate Chicago’s suburbs just hours after Illinois House Democrats proposed the sweeping changes to overhaul the Chicago region’s mass transit systems.
Pritzker, who has encouraged lawmakers to come up with a plan to prevent the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pace from falling off a so-called fiscal cliff, said the final bill lawmakers want to pass by the end of the fall legislative session this week “isn’t going to look like what the House has put forward.”
The governor’s lack of enthusiasm for the 1,000-plus page bill introduced by House Democrats late Tuesday night includes a menu o

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