Democratic political ideas in action
This is what you get if you do things the way the current national government wants to do them. Illinois and Chicago are the political fountainheads of our current president.
Look and learn.
California is mentioned in passing. You can almost map success and failure across states and cities in the U.S. by seeing how long they've been under Democratic control.
Such states and cities are desperately trying to get at the Federal money trough, so they can avoid hard decisons by drawing from the one entity that can print money out of thin air and redistribute the wealth from more successful states.