Home health care workers picket lawmaker

DANVILLE – A small group of home health care workers picketed outside state Rep. Bill Black's Danville office Thursday morning to protest possible budget cuts of 50 percent or more in Illinois human services.

But the Danville Republican wasn't there. An aide said that he was on a long-planned vacation with his wife and that he was scheduled to return home before the Legislature comes back to Springfield next Monday.

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