Enterprise zones caught in state budget impasse

A decades-old program of enterprise zone tax breaks for business development has become the latest state program caught up by the Illinois budget impasse. Local economic development officials said Monday there appeared to be little immediate effect from an Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity announcement Sunday that the agency would not certify nearly 50 enterprise zone economic development districts statewide as a result of the budget impasse…Please click here to read Tim Landis and Jamie Munks’ story in the State Journal-Register.