SPRINGFIELD — With the clock running down to avert Illinois’ impending public transit fiscal cliff , state lawmakers late Thursday brought forward a new plan that excludes most of the broad taxes and fees on Illinois consumers that tanked previous versions.

The new proposal, discussed in a House committee hearing late Thursday even before new language had been publicly introduced, proposed funding the Chicago area’s transit systems primarily through a roughly $860 million state motor fuel sales tax, about $200 million in interest from the state’s road fund and more than $400 million from a potential, slight sales tax increase in the Chicago metro area, according to Democratic state Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado of Chicago, a key transit negotiator in the House. It also included a sharp increase

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