SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers were cutting it close to a key constitutional deadline to pass their $55.2 billion state budget package late Saturday, while the fate of a bill to overhaul Chicago-area mass transit governance hinged on legislators’ appetite to slap a $1.50 fee on package and food deliveries.

The budget proposal relies on tax hikes that would hit smokers, gamblers and big corporations to help seal an estimated $1 billion shortfall.

Democratic members of the General Assembly were confident they’d pass the budget by a midnight deadline, but weren’t as sure about the transit package, a separate measure that would create the new delivery tax to help the CTA, Metra and Pace avert a $770 million fiscal cliff next year.

The broader spending plan largely follows Gov. JB Pritzker

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