Democrats finally filed a state budget bill Wednesday night — five days after blowing a self-imposed deadline and nearly six hours after Gov. J.B. Pritzker and party leaders held a celebratory news conference to declare they had reached agreement on a “good” and “balanced” budget.
But even after the afternoon victory lap, a bit of nervousness hung in the air, at least for onlookers, as the actual piece of legislation — all 3,409 pages of it — slowly surfaced.
