State Rep. Allen Skillicorn told the McHenry Times he has no objections to the construction of the Obama Center at the cost of $224 million planned for Chicago’s Southside, but the Republican from Crystal Lake doesn’t think taxpayers should have to foot the bill for what some have derisively referred to as Obamaland.

A former economics professor who is an adviser to the Heartland Institute believes the best way to overcome Illinois’ unsustainable debt is to do what no state has done since the 1930s: declare bankruptcy.