Unlike California, Illinois is not issuing IOUs. They're simply refusing to pay their bills:
Right now, $4.4 billion worth of bills, some dating back to October, are sitting in the Illinois comptroller's office waiting to be paid someday. . . . Illinois is on track to end the current fiscal year with about $6 billion in unpaid bills. Budget proposals for the coming year — when the state faces a $13 billion deficit — assume the same thing will happen again.
As you might imagine, this is wreaking havoc on companies that do business with Illinois. For more details on this sorry "state" of affairs, see IllinoisIsBroke.com.
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