I have written many articles regarding Illinois. We saw this developing quickly 20 years ago. Illinois was in trouble back then. They were short $600,000,000.00 a year back then. The press never covered it. The public workers learned in the 1980's how to milk the system. An example would be the teachers union. They would work extra hours, coach etc to boost their last two years of pay and retire with that matching artificially high income. Do that State wide for 30 years and the financial system is bleed to death. The corrupt criminal State government, county government and public employees are all to blame. Left the State a long time ago saw the hand writing on the wall. The State will not recover. Shear grand Larson