Service providers are struggling with what work will look like Monday after Governor Bruce Rauner trimmed $26 million in state grants. Among funding cut late Friday to close a $1.6 billion current-year deficit is $3.4 million for helping immigrants assimilate and $3.1 million to help kids between the ages of 7 and 17. Spokeswoman Catherine Kelly says Rauner is trying to make ends meet without raising taxes or borrowing. Breandan Magee is program director for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. He said Saturday that English classes, citizenship-application assistance and more will end. Jimi Orange of Children’s Home and Aid says as many as a quarter of the 100 kids who are tutored after school in Chicago’s West Englewood neighborhood won’t be able to come anymore.
