Surprise surprise, a tax in Illinois. Illinois seems to be one of the top wasteful (and maybe corrupt, I don't know) states in the U.S. It is absolutely run by Chicago, which is a world different from the farming communities everywhere else.
A for-instance of incompetence/foolishness/corruption: it was told to me that one of the interstates was contracted out to different companies for each one to do 20 mile segments. The result is a patchwork of shoddy pavement and patched potholes. The only reason I can imagine doing splintered 20 mile chunks is a kickback somehow, somewhere, to somebody. Worse, it's one one the few states in the region to actually charge tolls for, ahem, road construction and upkeep.
Surprise surprise, a tax in Illinois. Illinois seems to be one of the top wasteful (and maybe corrupt, I don't know) states in the U.S. It is absolutely run by Chicago, which is a world different from the farming communities everywhere else.
A for-instance of incompetence/foolishness/corruption: it was told to me that one of the interstates was contracted out to different companies for each one to do 20 mile segments. The result is a patchwork of shoddy pavement and patched potholes. The only reason I can imagine doing splintered 20 mile chunks is a kickback somehow, somewhere, to somebody. Worse, it's one one the few states in the region to actually charge tolls for, ahem, road construction and upkeep.