Crain’s Chicago Business (Nov. 16) – The University of Illinois System is greeting incoming Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker by asking for a boost in state funding at its campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield. System officials said in a statement today that its board of trustees approved the request today for $692.5 million in operating funds for fiscal 2020, which is 16.5 percent higher than the fiscal year 2019 budget.