SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker said he is emphatically opposed to several revenue solutions House Democrats introduced Tuesday night to fund public transportation in Illinois.

Speaking at an event Wednesday morning in Taylorville where he met with Illinois farmers, Pritzker declared an amendment to Senate Bill 2111 dead before it could even be called for a hearing in a House committee.

“As it is, it’s not going forward,” the governor told reporters. “There’s got to be a lot of discussion between the House and the Senate in order to come up with a final bill because it isn’t going to look like what the House has put forward.”

The transit funding bill introduced by Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado, D-Chicago, would raise between $1.5 billion and $2 billion to plug a funding gap for Chicago are

See Full Page