To paraphrase Horace Greeley in his Manifest Destiny exhortation, but for those seeking out well-funded public pension plans, it's time to go north -- northwards from Illinois, that is, to the greener pastures of the Wisconsin Retirement System. Let's start with some charts:  first, the funded ratio.  (This and the following charts come from data extracted from PublicPlansData.org, which includes the years 2001 through 2017, as well as the Wisconsin 2017 actuarial report.