{"podcast":{"title":"Capitol Cast: Illinois","slug":"capitol-cast-illinois-587185","podcast_index_feed_id":587185,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:612659559/sounds.rss","website_url":"https://capitolnewsillinois.com/","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-CMjFDIbPk1kPO3zA-llzbWA-original.jpg","author":"Capitol News Illinois","episode_count":343,"summary":"Your trusted source for news and analysis of Illi…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T08:18:14.756044+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/capitol-cast-illinois-587185"},"episode":{"title":"Pritzker signs budget bill","slug":"pritzker-signs-budget-bill","published_at":"2026-06-18T19:24:47+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/capitol-cast-illinois-587185/pritzker-signs-budget-bill","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/capitol-cast-illinois-587185","url":"https://soundcloud.com/user-592090129-621623053/pritzker-signs-budget-bill","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2342076485-user-592090129-621623053-pritzker-signs-budget-bill.mp3","summary":"Gov. JB Pritzker signed the $55.9 billion budget package for the upcoming fiscal year, along with a revenue package to help pay for it. Meanwhile, lawmakers failed to take action regulating data centers in Illinois, but controversy over those developments is now going away. And a federal lawsuit seeks to block the state's Medical Aid in Dying law from going into effect in September. Ben Szalinski, Jerry Nowicki, Nikoel Hytrek and Jenna Schweikert discuss those stories with host Peter Hancock.","meta_description":"Gov. JB Pritzker signed the $55.9 billion budget package for the upcoming fiscal year, along with a revenue package to help pay for it. Meanwhile, lawmake…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":948,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/capitol-cast-illinois-587185/episodes/pritzker-signs-budget-bill/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/capitol-cast-illinois-587185/pritzker-signs-budget-bill.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}