ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Rockford's Singer Mental Health Center is once again apart of the state's ailing budget. Governor Pat Quinn is proposing to shut down the facility as early as this summer, that means hundreds of jobs are on the line as well as the fate of patients who rely on the center.

Quinn is expected to announce the cuts during his budget address on Wednesday. Among the reductions is the closure of two state prisons which house more than 2,000 inmates, that move could increase crowding in facilities already far beyond capacity. Juvenile prisons and half way houses could also be on the chopping lock. Although, Senator Dave Syverson says local facilities shouldn't be affected. Syverson says he's most concerned about Singer considering patients will have no where to go if the center shuts down.

Senator Dave Syverson, (R) 34th State Senate District, says "If the governor is successful in closing the facilities without a back up plan these patients are going to end up going to the hospitals or emergency rooms that are already and its going to create a problem for our hospitals not just in Rockford but the whole region"

According to Chicago media the governor is expected to announce as part of his budget the closure of four state mental hospitals including Rockford's Singer Mental Health Center.

Two prisons in Dwight and Tammes, six department of human services adult transitions but none locally. And two juvenile justice centers in Joliet and Murphysboro.

Quinn won't propose fixes for pensions, Medicaid

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn's budget speech won't include specific plans for fixing two of Illinois' biggest financial problems.

Aides say Quinn will outline the depth of the state's pension and Medicaid problems Wednesday and discuss general solutions. But they acknowledge he won't spell out exactly what the governor thinks should be done.

Quinn adviser Jerome Stermer told reporters Tuesday evening that Quinn will work with lawmakers and outside groups to negotiate solutions.

State government has to contribute more and more to pensions every year to make up for under-funding them in the past. The increase next year is roughly $1 billion.

Medicaid costs are climbing, too. Quinn says they must be cut by $2.7 billion next year.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Republicans are criticizing parts of Gov. Pat Quinn's proposed budget along with some of the ideas he's likely to detail.

According to a Tuesday budget briefing, Quinn will propose closing several state facilities during his address Wednesday. The Democrat has also asked several agencies to cut spending.

However, the overall budget is more than last year.

Republican Sen. Matt Murphy says the closures are a step in the right direction toward cutting spending, but more should be done.

Other GOP leaders who spoke a day ahead of the address condemned Quinn's other ideas and past actions.

Illinois GOP Party Chairman and Congressman Aaron Schock accused Quinn of showing no leadership on pensions and warned him not to build the budget on projections of Medicaid savings that may never materialize.

Quinn: Tamms, Dwight prisons should close

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn wants to cut costs by closing a prison that opened just 14 years ago as a cutting-edge facility for the state's most dangerous inmates.

Aides said the Democrat will propose closing the "supermax" prison at Tamms in southern Illinois when he lays out his budget plan Wednesday. Also on the chopping block is the 80-year-old lockup in Dwight.

Tamms opened in 1998 to house the state's most violent prisoners. Those inmates will move to the maximum-security Pontiac Correctional Center.

Female prisoners at Dwight would be transferred to Logan prison in Lincoln.

The closures, along with a plan to shutter six centers for low-level offenders, are intended to cut spending by $100 million a year.

A person who has seen the budget proposal tells The Associated Press it would close four facilities run by the Human Services Department and two run by Juvenile Justice, as well as the eight Corrections Department facilities. The targeted Corrections facilities won't all be prisons.

The person was not authorized to discuss the governor's plans publicly and would speak only on the condition of anonymity.

The only facilities besides prisons listed on the Corrections Department's website are seven "adult transition centers" for inmates nearing the end of their sentences and various work camps affiliated with prisons.

The Democratic governor presents his budget to the General Assembly tomorrow.