>> Illinois lawmakers gave retiring Senator Durbin a hero's welcome at a joint session in Springfield this afternoon.

Durbin said his career in public life has been an honor ticking off some of his proudest accomplishments while warning of the division's facing the country.

Nic Bloomberg has more on Jarvis address and other developments in Springfield as lawmakers head toward adjournment.

>> brand is Senator Durbin is set to leave office in January after 30 years in the U.S.

Senate.

As we heard at the top of the show, he says that work has genuinely enriched his life during his long career on caught in Congress.

He's worked on a wide array of issues, including one he touched down in his address today.

That sounds almost like it's from another lifetime banning smoking on airplanes also been a longtime advocate for immigration reform, championing the Dream Act as a pathway to citizenship for young people brought to the United States without documents, children.

After years of pushing for that bill with no success, Durbin recalled that one day he picked up the phone and rang up an old friend of his from the U.S.

Senate by the name of Barack Obama moved on to a new position in government.

>> Which was a good one.

He was president of states can you do anything by executive order?

To help the Dreamers?

That's when he came up with DACA.

Dhaka and best helping 900,000.

Young people in America giving them the legal right to work.

Without fear of deportation.

>> Durbin also warned about the danger of political divisions facing the U.S.

arguing that the long tradition of the peaceful transfer of power has been under threat in recent years.

And that election integrity could be under attack in the upcoming midterms.

>> Debates in Congress and contest in our courts indicate this next election.

May be challenged in ways we have never seen before in our history.

Abraham Lincoln, a house divided speech to the game here in Springfield.

Gave a grim morning that the divisions in America over issues, slavery could destroy our nation.

We see similar divisions today.

>> addition to celebrating German's career, of course, lawmakers have a long list of items to accomplish before they're set to adjourn on Sunday.

What we know about where the budget stands.

well as is often the case.

Folks here and expect it might go right down to the wire.

We heard earlier this month from Governor Pritzker's budget office.

They're expecting 173 million dollars less in revenue in the coming fiscal year than originally predicted.

So that means lawmakers already facing a tight budget really don't have a lot of wiggle now, the budget that the governor proposed in February floated an array of new sources of cash, including a proposed fee on large social media firms and changes to gambling taxes.

>> But we heard earlier today from a group of Republican budget tears in the Senate.

They said that new taxes are going to hurt Illinois residents and warned that a last-minute budget just doesn't give legislators enough time to parse the spending plan >> Instead of making Illinois more competitive, these ideas move us in opposite direction.

Our Illinois families are already stretched thin and they do not want higher taxes.

>> And of course, has been a lot of attention this session on the possibility of so-called mega projects bill aimed at keeping the Bears in Illinois.

Where does that stand >> That's right.

That measure cleared the House last month and it's now in the hands of the state Senate.

And there's the possibility that there could be some pretty significant changes.

The original proposal would allow for large-scale developments like in Arlington Heights Stadium to lock in property tax rates for 40 years.

Crain's Chicago Business reporting today that some lawmakers are considering narrowing the scope of the bill in order to garner the necessary votes.

heard one of the lead negotiators on that Mega Project, Bill Representative, Kam Buckner of Chicago.

He was pushing back on reports from the Cook County Treasurer's Office that found this mega project measure would give Bears an estimated 30 mine.

39 million dollars in annual property.

Tax savings.

But that the benefit to taxpayers would be potentially Now responding to that report, Buckner said, quote, You can't count full tax revenue from a project that doesn't exist.

May never get financed.

May get tied up in court for May go to another state.

The real choice is not full taxes versus reduce taxes.

The real choice is a negotiated payment on a real project or from taxes on an empty lot.

Obviously going to be a lot of interest into whether they can get that bill into the endzone Brandis.

course, the clock is ticking.

thanks so And you can catch Nick, more of Nic's coverage