"This was not a year for tremendous accomplishment and progress, even outside of the budget," said Sen. Daniel Biss, D-Evanston. "Sure, we got some things passed and they were big and good bills, but in the past there are usually a number of pretty significant issues that got taken on. … There wasn't really a lot of that this session, more of a lot of looking around and going, 'Whoa, is this really happening?'"