One and a half years to go to court over a DUI?
Some years back I was helping relatives down in Champaign Illinois, with a cousin who was experiencing dementia and needed allot of assistance. Her income was low enough to qualify her for medicaid (can pay part of nursing home care) and an application for that had been submitted to the state agency handling it. Telephone inquiries on the application kept get answers that essentially meant - “we can’t tell you when it will get denied or approved”. We finally got a social worker person at a hospital to help us. She had helped putting the application together many months before. She made some calls and finally got an answer. We were in January, and the application had been submitted the prior October. What the social worker person found it was that it would be months before we had a real answer. The state agency was still working on medicaid applications submitted the prior June - applications submitted four months prior to our cousins’ and six months prior to our inquiry with the state agency.
Illinois state government costs so much because too many people on the state payroll work to little and too slowly which requires many more state workers than usual just to keep going. Illinois state government has 500 employees for every 10,000 people in Illinois. In contrast the Florida state government has about 706 employees for every 100,000 people in Florida. That translates to about 5,000 state employees in Illinois for each 100,000 people or about seven times as many employees per capita than Florida. That’s a lot of people just shuffling a lot of papers and getting nothing done.