Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza said that the COVID-19 shutdown this spring has had a significant impact on tax revenues that the state needs to operate.

The pandemic health crisis has also hit Illinois with several billion dollars in emergency expenses, she told the State Journal-Register.

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