Frustrated drivers are finding extraordinarily long lines at emissions testing sites across the state.

CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov reports on why motorists are waiting so long.

If you are lucky, it will take you 23 minutes to have your car tested at Naperville’s Emission Testing Center.

Gov. Bruce Rauner justified his now-overidden veto of a Chicago police and fire pension bill by claiming it merely “kicked the can down the road” by allowing the city to borrow $843 million from the two funds at an interest rate of 7.75 percent, saddling taxpayers with an additional, $18.6 billion burden.

On Friday, Moody’s Investors Service used a similar argument to criticize Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s stunning political victory over his old friend Rauner as a “credit negative.”

“While the new law does provide short-term budget relief by reducing these pension plan contributions by $220 million, Chicago pension contributions will now fall far short of amounts needed to curb growth in its unfunded pension liabilities, a credit negative. By paying less now, Chicago risks having to pay much more later,” Moody’s wrote in its new Weekly Credit Outlook for Public Finance.

Springfield passed two bills last night that would make it easier for someone with a criminal record to get a license to work.

About a quarter of all Illinois residents need an “occupational license” from the state to do their jobs, according to a recent White House report..

But those can be hard to get if you have a criminal history.

The city’s embattled police oversight agency on Friday released video and audio recordings from dozens of police shootings, Taser uses and cases of unnecessary force by Chicago Police officers.

At a news conference Friday, Independent Police Review Authority Director Sharon Fairley announced an “historic” release of files involving 101 open investigations. The agency launched a searchable, online database of files in pending investigations at 11 a.m., including more than 300 audio and video files related to the cases.

McDonald’s is offering voluntary buyouts to several hundred head office workers slated to begin in late July, two sources who were offered packages tell Crain’s.

Employees attended departmental meetings this week to discuss the buyout packages, which are being offered across the organization to employees at the director level and above, said the sources, who requested anonymity because they are contemplating whether to stay.

It’s unclear how many of the roughly 2,000 workers in McDonald’s global and U.S. headquarters in Oak Brook are eligible for packages, which offer pay commensurate with salary and length of service, but the number is likely to be more than 400, the sources said. Not all those eligible are expected to accept the package.

When Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy last December, he joined a long list of the city’s mayors who personally hired their “ideal” top cops, only to dump them when the relationships turned sour.

In the more than 60 years since Mayor Richard J. Daley was elected, Chicago has had seven mayors and 14 police chiefs. Many of the mayors had significant police scandals on their watch, which often led to the sacking of the police chiefs. Most of the police superintendents were fired or resigned because they were about to be fired.

The police superintendents themselves didn’t commit crimes, take bribes, abuse citizens or shoot unarmed fleeing suspects. But too many rank and file officers did. They committed these offenses on the chief’s watch when he supposedly was in charge of his officers. The superintendents were usually slow to take corrective action and in most cases, the bad cops were never disciplined. That’s business as usual in Chicago, and it typically doesn’t seem to bother the mayor, until the news media and voting public became upset. Then the ax falls.

Republican Governor Bruce Rauner is calling on more Democrats to break ranks with party leaders in order to pass a budget plan for the state.  Rauner says he was ‘stunned’ that Democrats were unable to agree on a budget plan on the last day of the spring session. Some Democrats did break ranks, leading to the defeat of a House budget plan in the Senate, and a Senate school funding bill in the House.

The governor says rank and file members should have stood up to House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton weeks ago.

“We could have a balanced budget,” he said.  “We could have reforms.  And we could be funding our schools – and we could be on a trajectory of prosperity for the people of the state.  The Democrats – they’re starting to get there, and the fact that they didn’t get there yesterday at the end of the General Assembly’s session – stunning failure and a dereliction of duty.”