Windy City Times: "Agencies feel IL budget pinch"

by Samuel Worley

   As indicators point to the beginning of the end of the economic recession, local agencies that offer social services to the LGBT community continue to struggle with funding.  
   Although the state of the national economy has dominated headlines over the past year, many in the Chicago nonprofit community say that constant struggle over funding and budgetary issues is nothing new.  Most have experiened a slowdown in private fundraising and donations from foundations since the beginning of the recession - but political intransigence on the part of the crisis-laden state government did not begin with the recession, and in some important ways occurs quite independently of it.
   What's different from the seemingly routine state government crises of the years past, said John Peller, Director of Government Relations for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC), is the size of read full story...