After years of dire warnings, Illinoisans are numb to the pension crisis

The long-running soap opera of Illinois’ perilous finances has featured a governor touting a Squeezy the Pension Python mascot, a business group fronting an “Illinois is Broke” website and a torrent of sky-is-falling warnings from pension analysts, partisans, academics and newspaper editorial boards.

Here’s a link to the story at the Southern Illinoisan.