State universities: Illinois budget stalemate causing damage ‘beyond repair’

“This is a crisis by every definition of the word crisis,” said Thomas Wogan, spokesman for the South Side public university that serves about 4,800 students.

About 30 percent of the university’s funding — approximately $36 million a year — comes from the state. By March, the campus will not have enough money to meet its $5 million monthly payroll costs, Wogan warned Tuesday…Please click here to read Jodi S. Cohen’s story in the Tribune.