gov pat quinn spoke with the united power for action justice assembly today about an illinois based healthnce exchange dixit exchange will be set up as part of the president's health-care law they say state run market place will offer affordable health insurance plans to individuals and small businesses. >> we have to get our legislators in and a couple of weeks to vote in favor of a good health insurance exchange, part of the affordable care act president barack obama fought hard for in that believe in this law, we will implement in a way that it's more people with health insurance at reasonable prices. >> the governor also said today that he views the president's health-care law simply as a steppingstone to full-fledged government run health care systems and all americans will have a chance to participate in it. you're live illinois lottery drawing is next hands will it looks like we're going to get used to these cooler temperatures. tonight on instant replay, the bears get prime-time exposure for the second week in a row this time on home turf against the vikings. other games and up set

pat quinn joined it today as he held a news conference. it is a pocket of wilderness, we're not like the west that have vast areas of wilderness, we have pockets of wilderness in illinois and they are special places and that's why we encourage everyone in illinois to come to starved rock. it is 100 years young, it is going to be here for years to come. >> starved rock state park is welcoming an all-time high of nearly 2.2 million visitors this year. and as luck would have a well gov quinn was talking to the star of rock crowd the illinois conservation please had just rescued a bald eagle with a broken left wing. the injured berg was found in harris and illinois and will be rehabilitated at the illinois raptor center in decatur the eagle is less than two years old and has a wingspan of 5 ft.. eva >> senator mark kirk was in town today hosting his fourth annual model congress for high school students, more than 100 students from all over the chicago area have participated in the event at instill central high school students played roles of a

. >> governor pat quinn have announced that the as had been made with the union. they aim to keep trade shows and conventions coming back to chicago. after several shows they threatened to leave and not returned to the city due to high labor costs. the national labor relations act pre-empts that this some of the changes and new deals exhibitors can unload their own vehicles and perform work on their boots. and it the length of time is extended so that will make less overtime. taxi drivers and restaurants could be hurt if trade shows or conventions were no longer here. >> will put more carpenters and teamsters to work keeping chicago in the state of illinois the number one attractive place. >> will we are dealing with here some folks do it for different reasons some areas of the country people bash the union but here we have the collaboration.. >> some of the changes in the our original legislation are still part of the deal you and anne leaders said they agreed to them because there were safety concerns addressed. defense attorney for william cellin begani their c

pat quinn and racetrack leaders discuss a bill that would greatly expand gambling in illinois the twoith controversial legislation the thompson center this morning the bill calls for putting slot machines in racetracks something racetrack leaders say that they need to stay competitive the measure also calls for a casino in chicago but the governor has strong concerns about the legislation calling it excessive. a teenage suspect is in custody in the shooting of chicago police officer outside the city's far south side the 27 year-old officer was shot in the late around 915 last night the officer was responding to a college shots fired he and another officer approached a group of people on self langley avner one of those people ran away in according to police when officer chased him that's when the suspect opened fire the injured officer was treated overnight has been released from the hospital the suspect was arrested. at lincoln park man charged in the murder of a woman had a river north hotel is in bond court today christopher lovell was 23 years old is charged with first-degree murde

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governor will sign much scaled-back version of the bill already passed based on free-market governor pat quinn laid out last week but a very good chance he will not like it into the gaming industry already does not. >> casinos out of the business we would be in the whole >> interested to hear what mayor emmanuel but have to say about killing off casino >> amazing number of people in illinois to go up of state gambling and we are losing that money >> money also very much on the minds of protesters who packed capitol rotunda at state workers mostly domestic lawmakers upstairs do more and cut less >> they do not realize we depend on them to do a good job >> major issues of > veto session pension reform utility rates and gambling law makers showing their frustration as well >> i think a failure of leadership in this state for some time now not just respect to gambling issue >> center is wondering aloud how the process tenacious bid to expand gambling will look to constituents >> at some point if the take a look at the situation what are you people doing? passed a bill to not want to go to governor

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wgn news @ 9 some illinois lawmaker is counting votes trying to override governor pat quinn veto of casinothis week one key issue ouzel to allow addition to slot machines in racetracks illinois horseman hoping he will reconsider the position no longer a level playing field with iowa and indiana not equipped with slot machines not just the wealthy track owners who will suffer without the slot machines >> approximately 1500 horses in the backstretch of popcorn we figure somewhere in neighborhood of 1000 workers who live here on the backstretch or in and around the surrounding community working with the horses at all for bamut trainers and jockeys stableman's whole community of workers will be out of work they say critics argue horseracing is dying sport track and horse owners say attendance is still strong will not maintain without additions of slot machines at the tracks. city leaders interested in getting a gambling bills passed open allowing for chicago-based casino mayor emmanuel wants to use revenue by casino to pay for infrastructure project willing to work with sprint cup lawmakers to

. >> hinojosa: jerry stermer is a top advisor to the democratic governor of illinois, pat quinn, a close obama ally. stermer says the administration had sold secure communities to illinois as a program targeting the worst of the worst. >> we're talking about murderers and rapists and arsonists and the most serious, and that was very clear. that's what we heard about, and that's what we understood was going on. >> hinojosa: but when the governor's office looked at ice's own statistics and discovered that less than 20% of those deported from illinois had been convicted of a serious crime, they concluded they'd been sold a bill of goods. >> we met on a number of occasions with the federal officials and said, "this isn't... this isn't going the way that you had described it and that we had understood. can we fix this?" and they said, "well, if we're looking for the most serious offenders and we want to deport them, there's going to be collateral damage." and we thought, "are we talking about collateral damage of a mother who had a broken taillight being separated, maybe forever, from her chi

pat klan's threatened veto of a gambling expansion bill gov. quinnd he doesn't want slot machines to be headed on stage race tracks are chicagos airports and will be no any bill that includes as provisions the governor has also voiced his concerns about co-med proposed rate hike to improve its market technology lawmakers are expected to find ways to fill gaps in the state budget and possibly vote on proposed tax breaks for chicago's financial exchanges tom negovan will be reporting from springfield tonight on the news that five and at 9 >>tax hikes and layoffs cook county board president toni preckwinkle formally presented her budget plan today that includes cutting taxecutting jobs and raising taxes on alcohol and tobacco ... the county use tax on cars boats and other types of property may go up one to 2% ... and currently free parking may cost something in the future ... but sales taxes may be rolled back a quarter percentage point >>in my inaugural address i pledge that the fiscal 2011 budget would include a commitment to reduce the sales tax a qu