$250,000,000,000 and counting. That’s a quarter-trillion dollars, which is how much Illinois pension debt now totals, according to Moody’s – Crain’s

That's the bottom line of the latest annual look at the conditions of the government retirement systems in the 50 states by Moody's Investors Service. Illinois' adjusted net pension liability as of June 30, 2018, stood at a cool $240.8 billion. That's more than any other state, with California coming in second—its population is more than three times ours—at $230.8 billion and Texas coming in third at $132.8 billion.