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Illinois

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Sun Jul 2, 2017, 07:10 PM

Jul 2017

They simply could not make the tough decisions as expenses, especially public employee pensions spiraled out of control. I read about this a few days ago.

Here is one story (not the one I read - haven't found it)

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/30/news/illinois-what-happens-next/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom

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