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Interest payments on Illinois' unpaid bills add to vast cost of budget impasse

Posted on January 31, 2017

Chicago Tribune

This article examines the growing amount of interest penalties the State of Illinois is accumulating due to the State’s inability to pay down its bill backlog. Civic Federation President Laurence Msall comments that Illinois has become addicted to the bad habit of incurring interest penalties from not paying its bills.

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