Illinois Is Pension Basket Case You Forgot About

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Rod Blagojevich is in prison. But the worst things the former governor did to Illinois weren’t even illegal.

This month, the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois made a dire announcement to its members. TRS, which covers most public-school teachers in Illinois outside Chicago and has more than 360,000 members, said the following: