SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Service providers are struggling with what work will look like Monday after Gov. Bruce Rauner trimmed $26 million in state grants.
Among funding cut late Friday to close a $1.6 billion current-year deficit is $3.4 million for helping immigrants assimilate and $3.1 million to help kids between the ages of 7 and 17.
Spokeswoman Catherine Kelly says Rauner is trying to make ends meet without raising taxes or borrowing.
Breandan (BREHN’-din) Magee is program director for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. He said Saturday that English classes, citizenship-application assistance and more will end.
Jimi Orange of Children’s Home and Aid says as many as a quarter of the 100 kids who are tutored after school in Chicago’s West Englewood neighborhood won’t be able to come anymore.
