Lawmaker pleads for more school construction funding in Chicago
Calling crowded school on the Southwest Side of Chicago a cancer, state Sen. Martin Sandoval and others urged lawmakers to find money for school construction where crowding is most acute. Sandoval blasted state officials and Gov. Rod Blagojevich for failing to find adequate funds to pay for new schools. Capital projects are one of a number of competing agendas that appear deadlocked as overtime negotiations on the 2008 state budget continue.