Local Rauner Administration Initiates Management Steps to Prepare for Madigan-Cullerton Budget by Gary Kopycinski on June 2, 2015 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Local: Park Forest’s Sandra Zoellner Retires After 21 Years of Service June 17, 2026 Save the date for The Prairie Party at theNate June 17, 2026 Governors State Has New Soccer Complex and New Men’s Coach June 17, 2026 SPRINGFIELD –-(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. House Speaker Mike Madigan, Senate President John Cullerton and their caucuses passed a budget for the 2016 fiscal year beginning July 1 that is nearly $4 billion in the hole.