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Quinn postpones proposing new budget
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is giving himself a little breathing room on proposing a state budget. The Democrat signed legislation Tuesday that delays until March 6 his annual address to a joint session of the General Assembly. State law required him to propose by Wednesday a budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. But he would have had the ear of only half the Legislature. The House is in session Springfield this week, but the Senate isn't. The law has been changed in each of the three previous years to accommodate changes in budget scheduling. Quinn will likely focus on the still-unsolved public-employee pension crisis. The state also has $9 billion in overdue bills. ___ The bill is HB156. ___ Online: http://www.ilga.gov 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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