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FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2015, file photo, Illinois State Sen. Donne Trotter speaks during a news conference held by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus in Chicago. Illinois lawmakers who ended the nation's longest state fiscal standoff since the Great Depression have an ironic strategy for digging out of debt: taking on even more of it. Chicago Democratic Sen. Trotter says late-payment interest on $15 billion owed to vendors is far more expensive than interest on selling bonds. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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