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Originally Posted by sentinel
Cook County, and even the entire state need to shed thousands more jobs, in order to become remotely solvent again. Illinois has a disease called over-beaurocratitis.
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Illinois has many redundant levels of government in comparison to other states (so many townships, so many...), but those weren't the jobs on the chopping block with the cuts. It only ended up being 300 jobs, at least for now, but nearly 1/3 of the people cut were attorneys from the state's attorney's office and the public defender's office. Those are people you need. Many of the others were supposed to be from the Sheriff's Department.