Two Chicago officers have been stripped of police powers and placed on desk duty after department officials reviewed a dashcam video showing an armed robbery suspect being slammed to the ground during a 2011 arrest.

The Independent Police Review Authority is taking another look at the arrest at the request of newly appointed police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, department officials said. The Police Department released the video to the media late Friday.

Illinois’ college and universities received a much-needed lifeline Friday when lawmakers approved a $600 million short-term funding fix for the institutions, which have been struggling without state funding during the monthslong budget stalemate, even laying off employees.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is expected to sign the bill, which is a one-time deal and includes nearly $170 million in tuition grants for low-income students. But state Comptroller Leslie Munger said she wouldn’t wait for the Republican’s signature, instead immediately begin processing payments for schools. The rare bipartisan deal comes at an especially crucial time for Chicago State University, which has been on the verge of closing its doors.

The state’s Education Labor Relations Board on Thursday ruled in favor of the Chicago Board of Education in its complaint about the Chicago Teachers Union’s April 1 walkout, which the school district deemed “illegal.”

The ruling, however, won’t make a dent in the union’s threat to strike as soon as May 16 should the two sides not come to a contract agreement. The labor board’s decision references actions or strikes completed before a fact-finding report. That has now happened in the contract dispute between CTU and CPS. After it was released Saturday, CTU shot it down almost immediately.

The Illinois Senate has approved a measure that would send $450 million in temporary aid to human service programs during the state’s budget stalemate.

Bill sponsor Democratic Sen. Heather Steans of Chicago said Friday the plan would help support agencies that have cut services while operating without state funding since July 1.

The Senate approved the proposal by a 55-0 vote and sent it to the House, which has adjourned until May 3.

Illinois should have had a 2016 state budget 298 days ago, and despite a recent glimmer of hope it would be a safe bet that this will just be the year without a budget.

Too bad Illinois leaders could only freeze time and not stop digging the deficit hole, expected to reach $11 billion by July 1.

Belatedly, Illinois Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger discovered that the same authority allowing her to decide which social service agency should get what meager state money is available gives her the power to decide when to pay state leaders. Salaries for lawmakers and constitutional officers, including herself, are going to the back of the $7.7 billion bill backlog.

Lawmakers’ move this week toward decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana in Illinois was done with a handful of Republican supporters.

Among them: state Sen. Jim Oberweis, a Sugar Grove Republican who voted against a previous version of the plan last year but is in favor of Illinois’ law to legalize medical marijuana in 2013.

“We found out back in the ’20s and ’30s the prohibition of alcohol didn’t work very well,” Oberweis said.

Illinois is one of only three states that has an income tax but exempts all retirement income. Politicians, along with advocacy groups, have long pushed to keep it that way.

But amid the spiraling state budget and public pension crisis, even some anti-tax groups are open to giving the idea a closer look, provided, they say, it is weaved into a comprehensive and acceptable spending and taxing plan, a BGA Rescuing Illinois report finds.

Yet for Illinois’ dysfunctional government, drafting that blueprint is a very tall order, especially now. The budget stalemate between Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Democratic leadership of the General Assembly has been going on nearly a year.