Sadly, we don’t hear about those schools but I know that Northern Illinois struggles - their muni bond rating is junk - yet they issue bonds with insurance so the insurer knows the school is going to pay. No state is going to let a public school default - would be that logic. Or the insurer wouldn’t issue a policy as like all insurance, they don’t want to be on the hook.
That we don’t hear about these schools is perhaps why they and not UIUC/UIC are a part of the program.
I imagine if UIUC had an auto admit program that it’d be ranked base - like other schools.
It might, at some time, see Illinois combined campuses like PA and others - if the demand isn’t there.
It’s one state known for losing kids to other states that provide a cheaper education although (to me), the costs of some of these look reasonable. But a lot of Illinois kids are leaving the state - there’s articles about it.