SPRINGFIELD - You still can't play slot machines at horse racing tracks in Illinois. You still can't smoke in clubs or casinos. You won't be getting that fat state tax rebate that was once talked about.

And if you don't like it, you still don't get to recall elected state officials.

The state legislative session that ended last week was notable less for what happened than for what didn't - a blow to Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat whose activist agenda was slapped down for the second straight year by a Democratic Legislature.

Blagojevich began the year with an ambitious wish list: A massive infrastructure program; universal health care; and a $300-per-child state income tax rebate. He suggested paying for it with a major expansion of gambling.

But by the time the Legislature adjourned for the summer, virtually all of Blagojevich's agenda had been ignored. Instead, the Legislature unanimously sent him a campaign ethics bill that clearly was a swipe at the governor's own fundraising methods.

Blagojevich's failure to win passage of his $33 billion proposed infrastructure plan has been an especially bitter one. The program, the first of its kind in Illinois in almost a decade, would rebuild roads, bridges, schools and other infrastructure throughout Illinois through a expansion of the gaming industry.

Virtually everyone in state government agrees on the need for the program, and it passed the Senate. But House Democrats voted to table it, many of them citing complaints that they don't trust Blagojevich's office to administer the money. Because the plan wasn't voted down, it could, in theory, be brought up again for a vote any time the Legislature returns to Springfield this year.

"I'd recommend to the governor that he change his method of governing," House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, said shortly before the summer adjournment, laying blame for the various impasses squarely at Blagojevich's feet. Madigan bemoaned "a style which brings on conflict and confrontation rather than conciliation."

A Blagojevich spokesman last week disputed that characterization. "The governor is trying to make this work," said Brian Williamsen.

One of Blagojevich's biggest successes this session was, arguably, not the passage of legislation, but the killing of it. With a handful of top Senate allies, he managed to stop a legislative attempt to create a recall election system in Illinois, a move that was aimed directly at him.

"I think it's safe to say there wasn't a lot accomplished this year," said Chris Mooney, political scientist at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Besides the gaming expansion, other bills that failed, or have stalled, include:

- Smoking ban exemptions. Several lawmakers tried to carve out exemptions in the state's new smoking ban. Among the proposals were exemptions for riverboat casinos, private clubs and veterans' halls. None made it to a vote. (HB2035, HB4333, HB4104)

- Moment of silence. One lawmaker sought to change the new mandatory moment of silence for schools back to optional. But a parliamentary move left the lawmaker who proposed the moment of silence in control of the bill's fate, essentially killing the measure. (HB4180)

- Aluminum baseball bats. One lawmaker wanted to ban aluminum baseball bats in Little League, saying they were more dangerous than wooden ones. The measure was put on hold until Little League Baseball could conduct a study on the issue. (HB4140)

- Gas tax holiday. House GOP lawmakers pressured Democrats to vote on a measure to lift the state portion of the sales tax on gasoline. It never came to a vote. (HB6318)

Bills that did pass include:

- "Pay-to-play." This would ban state contractors from donating to state officials who control their contracts. It passed unanimously, but Blagojevich is threatening to rewrite portions of it, saying it needs to be "stronger." Critics say he's actually trying to kill it. (HB824)

- Cyber-bullying. The case of St. Louis-area teen Megan Meier, who killed herself after being harassed online, spurred Illinois lawmakers to pass a bill making such harassment a crime, punishable by one to three years in prison. Blagojevich is expected to sign the legislation. (SB2426)

It remains unclear whether lawmakers will get a scheduled pay raise for all this non-activity. A state compensation board has recommended a $7,632 increase in legislative salaries over the next two years, which would take their base pay to $72,985 from $65,353. Lawmakers get the raises unless they vote to reject them, and no such rejection has yet passed.

They still could reject the raises when they return to Springfield later this year. But even if they don't reject the raises, they won't get them unless the funding is added to the new state budget, which doesn't currently contain that money.