EXCERPT FROM: ABC 7 Chicago
By Theresa Gutierrez
August 17, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A Rogers Park home day care center that was scheduled to open in a few weeks is now fighting foreclosure.

EXCERPT FROM: The Beacon News
By Rowena Vergara
OSWEGO -- A state-funded day care program in Kendall County has opened for the summer, and is taking applications for children of migrant or agricultural workers.

EXCERPT FROM: Chicago Tribune
By John O'Connor
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The state of Illinois helped pay for day care services in homes where sex offenders live, the auditor general reported Tuesday.

EXCERPT FROM: The Associated Press
By Don Babwin
CHICAGO — Now the crisis is reaching the children.

EXCERPT FROM: The State Journal-Register
By Dean Olsen
The old, the young and the disabled, as well as men and women in uniform, would be among those to suffer under Gov. Pat Quinn’s proposed state budget for fiscal 2011.

EXCERPT FROM: KWQC 6
By Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Pat Quinn's administration is warning that his budget proposal will deliver painful news for people across Illinois.

EXCERPT FROM: Quincy Herald-Whig
By Edward Husar
Officials with agencies that get subsidies from the city of Quincy say the money is vital to their operations, and the agencies would be hurt or threatened if the money was taken away.

EXCERPT FROM: Westchester Suburban Life
By GateHouse News Service
When someone does work for you and sends you a bill, you pay it. If the service is one that you use regularly, you make sure the payment is prompt so that you maintain a good reputation and can rely on the work getting done month after month, year after year.

EXCERPT FROM: CBS 2
By Suzanne Le Mignot
CICERO, Ill. (CBS) ― Through a Child's Eyes preschool is going to shut down after the state cut its funding, but parents and teachers are not giving up without a fight.

CHICAGO – October 20, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn and Michelle Saddler, Secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), today announced new policy and administrative changes designed to provide greater assistance to low-income working parents struggling to keep their jobs while coping with child care needs.