A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
This is still legal in Illinois aka Double Dipping. Former Gov Walker in Wisconsin made this illegal but grandfathered in approx 8000 . Now in Wi. you must suspend your pension if you go back to work. Here in Illinois it is more common than not to retire in the public sector and even get rehired by the same organization and collect a hefty salary to boot. Sometimes they can get a second pension working elsewhere. School superintendents can do this if they get hired in another state.