Illinois as a state is a grease fire. They're in serious debt overall. Public employee pensions are severely underfunded, taxes are high, crime in Chicago is out of control, and at one point they had three ex governors in prison for corruption at the same time.
The capitol is in Springfield but all the political power is in Cook County/Chicago. It's been like that as far back as I can remember.
Thankfully we moved to southern Indiana many years ago and never looked back.
Once you get away from the northeast corner of Illinois it's a beautiful state, with lots of great people. Sadly they have no voice in the way the state is run.
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