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Bankrupt Illinois Cities Forced To Cut Services To Fund Pensions
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Mike ShedlockThird Domino
Illinois does not allow cities to file for bankruptcy but that is the best word to describe many of them. East St. Louis is the latest.
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Wirepoint reports Third domino falls: Illinois Comptroller set to confiscate East St. Louis revenues to pay for city's firefighter pensions.
On Tuesday, the East St. Louis' firefighter pension fund demanded that Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza intercept more than $2.2 million of East St. Louis city revenues so they could be diverted to the pension fund.