{"id":255316,"date":"2007-08-29T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/29\/bad-news-for-arts-orgs-in-illinois\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:43","slug":"bad-news-for-arts-orgs-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/29\/bad-news-for-arts-orgs-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News for Arts Orgs in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of what’s being called the “most blatantly political budgetary veto in Illinois history,” Governor Rod Blagojevich is cutting into the IL budget for the Arts:<\/p>\n

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He drastically slashed funding for the Illinois Arts Council, chaired by Shirley Madigan, the House Speaker’s wife. At least $9 million was cut out of grants distributed by the Arts council, including a million dollars for the Illinois Channel and $1.5 million for Public Radio and TV grants.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to the FY 06 annual report<\/a>, that $9 million represents almost half of their total revenue.<\/p>\n

The IAC<\/span> has consistently been one of the best Arts Councils for funding literature, but it’s hard to imagine that continuing now . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of what’s being called the “most blatantly political budgetary veto in Illinois history,” Governor Rod Blagojevich is cutting into the IL budget for the Arts: He drastically slashed funding for the Illinois Arts Council, chaired by Shirley Madigan, the House Speaker’s wife. At least $9 million was cut out of grants distributed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,5466],"class_list":["post-255316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-funding-for-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362786,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255316\/revisions\/362786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}