Illinois budget aide out to sell Blagojevich tax increase

CHICAGO (AP) - The Blagojevich administration's sell on the biggest tax increase in Illinois history to pay for health care and education continued Monday with one of the governor's top finance aides working a group of civic leaders at a downtown luncheon. With lawmakers in session in Springfield, Blagojevich and his staff have been working hard to win support for a proposed new tax on business transactions they say will bring in $6 billion to help fund the governor's spending plans. Businesses like Chicago's Midway Moving and Storage were anxious to get the details Monday from John Filan, one of Blagojevich's top managers. "That's why I'm here, to learn more about it ... but we're very concerned about it," Midway president Jerry Siegel sai