BUDGET GROWTH
Growth in the Illinois state budget, according to the governor's budget office:
Fiscal 1999
$38.465 billion, 7.3 percent increase (from $35.857 billion in 1998). Fiscal 2000
$43.751 billion, 13.7 percent increase. Fiscal 2001
$48.706 billion, 11.3 percent increase. Fiscal 2002
$51.993 billion, 6.7 percent increase.
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