Aaaah, summer vacation. Leave those worries behind in Springfield.

Know that you are in for a well-deserved rest because you worked so darned hard on behalf of your Illinois constituents.

It takes two to make a problem this bad.

It’s hard to feel anything but disgust over the failure — for the third year in a row — of the General Assembly to pass a budget by the May 31 deadline.

This is a grotesque bipartisan failure by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan to meet their most basic responsibilities. Senate President John Cullerton gets a pass on the harshest criticism because, however flawed it was, the Senate at least passed a budget for the new fiscal year that begins on July 1.

The big news of the week was that the General Assembly once again blew past their May 31 adjournment date without passing a permanent, balanced budget.

Unless your definition of news is something that’s out of the ordinary. In which case, it wasn’t the big news of the week.

There’s a $14.5 billion hole in the Illinois economy, and it’s growing every day.

When the Legislature stood in recess last Wednesday, marking the final day of the regular session, it had been 700 days since the state had a budget — the longest any state has been without a spending plan in modern history.

It is easy to get lost in the big picture of frustrations over the state legislature’s inability yet again to produce a budget.

But doing so obscures a lot of meaningful little pictures that also are a part of Springfield’s mosaic of many failures.

No funding for local school districts by the end of the summer might finally be enough to bring an end to a state budget impasse entering its third year, a local lawmaker suggested Friday.

“I think that’s the pressure point,” state Sen. Dave Koehler said during a news conference at his Labor Temple office. ” … I think that if it takes closing the schools down in September to get this crisis resolved, then that’s what it takes.”

In 2007, the City Council signed off on dozens of city worker contracts, all in force for 10 years. It was an unusual and risky move, meant to buy labor peace until after the 2016 Summer Olympics, which then-Mayor Richard M. Daley hoped to bring to Chicago. Oops.

The games, as we know, went to Rio de Janeiro instead. What else happened in those 10 years? The economy tanked, and lots of people lost their jobs. If you work in the private sector, you may have gone several years without a raise while your health care costs spiked. Your retirement savings account took a dive and struggled to recover.