"What we've been told from the other side is that they're willing to work out with us the stopgap budget, that we're close," Rauner said Thursday after speaking at a business banquet in downtown Chicago. "But what they've also made crystal clear is that Chicago's public schools need a bailout, want a bailout, and they're going to hold up everything in these budgets, in these negotiations, for Chicago Public Schools to get a bailout. That's not fair."