S&P lowers Illinois credit rating, blames pensions

 
By SARA BURNETT | Published: January 26, 2013   

Illinois' already disastrous financial situation worsened Friday as another credit rating agency downgraded its rating to the worst of any state in the country, blaming lawmakers' ongoing failure to resolve a multibillion-dollar pension crisis.

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Standard & Poor's rating service said Friday that the rating on the state's general obligation bonds was downgraded to A- from A. The agency also gave an A- rating to $500 million in general...
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