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Governor joins climate change initiative, encourages all Illinoisans to pledge to turn off lights for one hour from 8 to 9 pm on Saturday, March 29
Governor Rod R. Blagojevich announced that the State of Illinois will participate in Earth Hour, a climate change awareness event created by World Wildlife Fund where businesses and residents will turn off the lights in their buildings for one hour on March 29th, 2008 to symbolize the need to take action on this global issue. More than 30 cities on six continents around the world are participating in Earth Hour. Chicago was chosen as the flagship Earth Hour city in the United States, and we will be joined by Atlanta, Phoenix, and San Francisco, as well as Copenhagen, Toronto, Melbourne, Brisbane, Bangkok, Dubai, Dublin, Christchurch and Tel Aviv globally.
Gov. Blagojevich signs FY08 budget, cutting nearly $500 million in non-essential spending. Plans to expand healthcare to over 500,000 more Illinoisans
On Thursday, August 23, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich signed the state's Fiscal Year 2008 budget exercising his veto authority to remove $463 million in "pork" projects and other non-essential spending from the operating budget the General Assembly approved August 10.
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