Includes “… So, what about Illinois, which entered the pandemic in crisis? … Remarkably, thanks to that one-time cash infusion, Illinois has a balanced budget, and all three major credit agencies have recently issued positive outlooks. Still, ‘it’s a structural deficit we face in this state. We’ve got revenues increasing at a slower pace than spending,’ she says. ‘And so we balance the budget this year, but if we don’t change either growth rate, give us a few months: we’ll have a deficit.’ …”