Illinois, where if you want to get ahead, get into government . . .

Go neither west nor east nor north nor south, young man. Stay here and get a government job. You’ll be in the majority.

As of June 2015, Illinois had only 574,000 factory workers, compared with nearly 750,000 state and local government workers. That means Illinois had only 3 manufacturing workers for every 4 state and local government workers.

You’ll be in the money too, because govt is where the money is in Illinois.

On the other hand, Illinois’ money is running out . . .