people picketing to keep it open and it just made me cry. I knew picketing wouldn't help. It's so sad.

She had a great job down here as a sales person for the trades but after home building stopped she was forced to move back. She's now working for a newspaper up there selling ads,,,no one is buying ads. I feel bad for you and her. A no win situation.

Once again those that can't defend themselves,can't fight for their rights are losing their home,many are losing jobs and business's in the area will suffer. This is progress? Just how many of these residents would have the means to move into a private care facility? Using money as a goal post for all their ideas will only short change humanity as we know it. We can see it every day with the homeless being shuffled from street to street, the mental and physical being ignored or forced to live in the most lean facilities with often less then qualified or caring staff. The "once born" are ignored as are their mothers until she becomes pregnant again. The under employed,the out of work.... the list continues as we are all on that financial chopping block and the 1% cleavers never seem to tire of cutting us down.

The Governor will be making a lot of difficult decisions. I don't believe he intends harm. He's between a rock and a hard place with the fiscal state of Illinois. It's a mess. I hope the legislature will get to the reall cause of the fiscal emergency. We can still hope ( and vote).

When there is nothing left in this part of the state but a few elderly and low income people, there will be no reason for business to stay here. There will be no one left to pay taxes and no businesses left to spend money at. The unemployment rate in our country alone is 12 percent. (I am included in that number as well but have given up on finding a job and plan to go out of the area to school instead.) Why doesn't Quin look at the hardest hit areas of the state and try to help us rather than selling us down the river? There has already been a long standing movement to split the state in two because we just do not get representation for our needs in this part of the state.