A busy fall veto session comes to a close in Springfield
Update: 2025-10-31
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The dust is clearing in Springfield after state lawmakers wrapped up a busy fall veto session at around 4:30 this morning.
Democrats threw a financial lifeline to the Chicago-area’s mass transit system that raised tolls and sales taxes.
They pushed back against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement actions.
And they moved to allow physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients.
Here to help us break it all down is WBEZ’s Alex Degman.
HOST: LARA
Democrats threw a financial lifeline to the Chicago-area’s mass transit system that raised tolls and sales taxes.
They pushed back against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement actions.
And they moved to allow physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients.
Here to help us break it all down is WBEZ’s Alex Degman.
HOST: LARA
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