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(Springfield, IL) -- Illinois has secured $2 billion as a contingency fund.
Yesterday, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the state of Illinois will allocate an additional $138 million to its rainy day fund, which will increase the total amount in the fund to over $2 billion.
Around $25 million comes from Illinois' marijuana tax, and the rest is from state revenue or interest.
Illinois had a rainy day fund of less than $60,000 when Governor Pritzker started in 2018.