Air conditioning in Illinois Executive Mansion breaks down

The Chicago Tribune reports:

With a state budget crisis heating up in Illinois' dog days, the governor will have a hard time cooling off.

The Executive Mansion's air conditioning system broke down this week, just as Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the General Assembly return to the Capitol to try to find a solution to an unbalanced budget.

What's worse, the budget problems might prohibit the state from immediately fixing the breakdown at the governor's official residence.

Blagojevich stopped work on all new state construction projects earlier this month because his staff said language in budget legislation sent to him prohibited it.