I can tell you the end game for Illinois.
The City of Chicago will run out of money along with the state.
A crisis will be declared. They will go to Washington, DC, demanding a bailout and making their best Chicken Little case that the sky will be falling if they don’t get one.
Congress will capitulate and they’ll receive one. It’s the lesson I learned in 2008. If you go to Congress with a sufficiently butt-puckering tale of impending doom, you WILL receive a bailout.
Who wants to hurt 'women and children' the most?