Illinois budget feud deals 'unconscionable' blow to police, fire widows

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois owes a group of women whose police officer and firefighter husbands died in the line of duty more than $351,000 apiece for their losses, but the state’s chronic inability to pass a budget has left all of them unpaid like thousands of state vendors.

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