Seems like that state is screw up--I didn't like it much when I was there for just a day last year.
NY seems really cool, I hear of drunks killing people while driving and they get 3 - 4 years in jail, in Illinois you get sen up the river forever.
That state threw 2 of its Governors in prison, I hope to never ever go back to Illinois.
I would move if I was you, too bad they got that $13,000 from you