Governor JB Pritzker is set to outline his latest budget proposal in Springfield tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Illinois Democrats deliver harsh criticism of federal funding cuts and a letter from the city's inspector general blast Chicago officials for interfering with their investigations here with all that and more is our spotlight politics team, Heather Sharon, Nick Blumberg and Amanda Vicki, who is joining us from Springfield tonight.

Amanda, let's start with you.

First.

As we said, Pritzker, tomorrow's presenting his next budget proposal where he faces a 3.2 billion dollar shortfall this year.

How is he planning to address that?

Will bring us a wish.

I could give you more details.

The governor, in fact, was just practicing giving his budget address in the House chambers where usually speak to you and go live from.

But we weren't allowed in because he was giving a run through of >> that address.

What we know from the governor's office says that he says he is going to present a balanced budget that is going to be difficult.

Of course, given that you talked about huge deficit that was protected.

We are hearing, however, that it's not going to be that large after all that new figures estimates that you could be actually a billion dollars even more revenue coming in.

That gives Governor Pritzker is he gives his 7th budget speech a bit more room to work with as he again promises.

>> Balance he'll have to present some sort of more austere budget and spending plan if the same time.

Of course he is the governor.

He wants to make waves, make a name for himself in, have put spending toward big name programs.

This also comes as we discuss as the federal government is federal funding faces some uncertainty.

How is his administration going to handle that and take that into account?

>> he has said that it's very difficult to gauge because you don't know what actually is going to happen, that the Trump administration all over the place.

And further, of course, there's a lot of court action and there is not a lot of finality in terms of really what Illinois is going to be receiving from the federal government.

What will be caught off?

It is something that could present a huge gaping hole outside of that budget that we had talked about it, the deficit that is especially if you look at something like Medicaid cuts coming, that even means Illinois has to find a whole lot of money.

We're talking millions, millions of dollars or people who have had government assisted health care coverage.

We're going to have to go without.

I do want to add the governor, of course, has been very out in front about slamming President Trump, the executive orders that funding cuts.

expect we're going to get a lot of that tomorrow.

He's had some zingers in previous budget addresses and that was not when things ramped up to this degree.

So I'm guessing head the on the Trump singers during time.

what's at stake for Chicago here.

A lot is at stake for Chicago.

You've heard the Johnson administration often talk about there were desire to get more money coming in to prop up the PSA didn't, of course, we also have spent a lot of time talking about the program, funding cliff at that Chicago and the Northern Illinois is public transit agencies are really careening toward.

And so those are things that people are going to be looking for.

The governor to get answers on.

I expect that he is going to say yes, more money is going to go to education.

The billion dollars that CPS wants immediately.

Illinois does not have the money for that.

Governor has shown no appetite for it.

He's also said that he's not keen to look to raising taxes.

So that is what is at stake for Chicago, whether they're going to be happy with what they hear.

We'll see on Wednesday.

Nick, we know federal Illinois, they've been speaking out against the budget cuts under the Trump administration.

What are they saying?

That's right.

I mean, as Amanda they've been really raising the alarm about how fast and furious some of these cuts and changes have been.

>> You know, trying to sound the alarm for things like proper staffing at the FAA.

Obviously top of mind for a lot of folks right now for medical funding for things like HIV, AIDS prevention and treatment.

But they also were raising the specter of some things that are really near and dear to folks and perhaps less abstract and say, you know, a National Institutes of health funding, this or that study at this or that university.

But things like Social Security, Medicare, as Amanda mentioned, Medicaid aid to schools.

You know, in knee-deep, particularly needy students really trying to to raise the alarm here.

We saw Senator Durbin making the rounds yesterday, along with other members of the Illinois congressional delegation.

also heard not just about the cuts, but as well as their concerns about the potential for, you know, essentially Illinois style corruption.

We heard Congressman Mike Quigley say that firing all these inspectors general or Elon Musk acting largely unchecked, reminds him of some of the problems that Illinois has dealt with with graft and mismanagement in recent years.

Obviously, you're a receptive you know, to to But we will see whether they can get people's hackles up about something like Social Security check.

I'm so Heather City Council, though, scheduled to vote on a previously stalled effort to lower Chicago's default speed limit to 25 miles an hour.

This is coming up again.

Remind us how we got here.

Well, Alderman Daniel was spotted tried last month to sort of push this through the city council, which would lower the city's, as you said, default speed limit 5 miles an hour to 25 miles an hour.

>> But he didn't have the votes.

And when you don't have the votes, the smart thing most of the time is not to vote.

He's indicated that he's going to try again tomorrow.

It's not clear to me that anything has changed in the past month.

>> This was an effort months in the making and there are real concerns that this speed limit gets lowered, it will lead to more tickets and fines for black and Latino Chicagoans, which was of concern to the City Council's black caucus and they're Latino caucus.

So maybe folks have talked about this behind the scenes and everybody is sort of are going to sing come by on tomorrow's the city council meeting will have to wait and Nick Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill, Burke announcing that nonviolent gun cases would no longer be diverted to restorative justice community courts.

Remind us what these courts do.

That's right.

This is a story from our colleague where Paddack reported that, you know, these are places where folks come, they take responsibility.

They they've gentle, you know, enter into a piece circle and they come up with a way to repair the harm or repair of harm agreement.

We actually heard about.

>> The chief judge of the North Lawndale restorative Justice Court on Chicago tonight yesterday and they say these have a big success.

It's a 6 month up to a year and a half process.

And if they successfully completed, these folks had their charges dismissed their record, gets expunged.

They cite a 13% recidivism rate for folks to go through one of these courts versus people who go through the traditional sort of criminal justice system at 65%.

Now, Eileen O'Neill, Burke and her office, they say they want state lawmakers instead to send folks to a gun diversion program.

They've got some bills that they're pushing.

But, you know, the folks who who advocate for these sorts of restorative justice courts say, listen, that may be well and good that, you know, you may be well-intentioned here, but Los take time to pass.

And in the meantime, they're no longer sending any of these sorts of gun possession cases to the restorative justice courts.

Amanda, briefly, as we heard Illinois legislators are proposing a department of government officiate efficiency dedicated to the state and Illinois goes vertically.

Basically, what's the outlook for this?

>> I'm going to savor and is that the outlook is not good.

Despite Representative Cabello talking about it, his desire for efficiency.

And for that to be something that Governor Pritzker focuses on Republicans, they are in the super minority in Springfield bus far.

Granted, it is still very early in the legislative session.

That piece of bill has not been assigned to any substantive committee, which is sort of her first signal that Democrats are not inclined to it bans it.

Good luck to them with that.

Heather.

>> Inspector General Denver, what's Berg once the city council to tighten city's ethics rules?

Why?

But I think we all know why U.S. if the cliche raising the alarm that the mayor's handpicked corporation counsel, the city's top lawyer, >> has intervened in a number of cases that she says could cause political appointees, embarrassment.

And she says that the corporation counsel should no longer be allowed to request to sit an investigative interviews conducted by the inspector general, nor should they sort of have the ability to squash subpoenas that the inspector general wants to issue.

Now, this was a broadside from the city's watch tied to this to the city's debt to the Johnson Administration.

Of course, it's not the first time they've clashed.

They clashed