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<text id=93AT0320>
<title>
Illinois--Economy
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<history>
Compact ALMANAC--United States Directory
Illinois
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<article>
<source>Compact</source>
<hdr>
Economy
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<body>
<p>FW Rank: 47
</p>
<p>1992 Rank: 42
</p>
<p>Population: 11.5 million
</p>
<p>Moody's bond rating: Aa
</p>
<p>Standard & Poor's bond rating: AA-
</p>
<p>Governor: Jim Edgar, Republican
</p>
<p>Legislature: Democratic majority in House; Republican
Majority in Senate
</p>
<p>-- Ranking pluses: Strategic planning at agency level;
some attempts at quality management and pilot program to develop
better efficiency measures; very good financial reporting with GFOA
Certificate of Achievement and efforts made at making financial
material understandable to non-CPAs.
</p>
<p>-- Ranking minuses: Very short outlook on public revenue
estimates; annual shift of liabilities into next year grew to over $1
billion in fiscal 1992, though it will come down somewhat in current
year; GAAP deficit has risen steadily from $557 million in fiscal
1990 to $1.7 billion in fiscal 1992; some use of non-recurring
revenues in fiscal 1992; payments behind schedule on pension
funding; extremely slow at paying Medicaid bills; declining bond
ratings.
</p>
<p>-- Comments: "High Noon" department: Showdown in
progress as governor threatens to make state's temporary income tax
surcharge permanent and take revenues it generates away from
Illinois cities and put them entirely in state coffers. If this happens,
Chicago claims it will face a $35 million hole in the current budget
and a $65 million loss next year. Frustrated Chicago Mayor Richard
Daley even joked to reporters about secession. Other heated issue is
state's highly unpopular one-year Medicaid tax, including "granny
tax" of $6.30 a day on privately paying nursing home patients.
</p>
<p>Source: "The State of the States," Financial World Magazine,
May 11, 1993 (Vol. 161, No. 10); New York, NY.
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