While some states saw as much as a 15 percent decline in revenue since the great recession, Illinois had the second to largest increase of 22.5 percent.
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Overall states collected more than 2.5 percent more tax revenue in the third quarter of 2014 than they did midway through the recession, according to the Pew study.
