How to fix all that ails Illinois?

When education funding came up at today’s Sun-Times forum, Marshall once again held up his map and pointed: “Look at this, [dividing Illinois into three states] increases competition between all the universities,” he said. “Competition helps everything else. It drove the cost of televisions down. This would solve the problem of universities.”

If the Overton window is this wide open in 2018, maybe it’s just wide enough to allow Illinois to crack like Humpty Dumpty.