Illinois’ pension debt remains a $144B drag, threatening both the state’s fiscal health and Gov. JB Pritzker’s national ...

“Public employees are leaving their professions and our state because they can’t rely on a pension that ensures dignity in retirement,” We Are One Illinois coalition of labor unions statement.

Does Illinois finally have a path to public pension reform? Barrington Township recently placed a nonbinding resolution on the Nov. 5 ballot that serves as a meaningful first step. The referendum ...

With pension reform possibly within reach, there’s a Goldilocks problem for the state lawmakers setting plans.

CHICAGO -- Illinois, with its reputation for political wheeling and dealing, backroom handshakes and 11th-hour bargains, is dragging its feet on the one deal needed to solve its biggest crisis in ...

The General Assembly created so-called “Tier 2” pensions in 2010 in hopes of avoiding long-term liabilities, but the benefits are not enough to retire on, those workers say.

Public safety pension costs and the end of the state's grocery tax could have a big impact on Peoria in the future.

Changes that would make Illinois pension systems compliant with Social Security by improving benefits for government employees hired since 2011 could be on the table when lawmakers return to ...

Your editorial "Pension purgatory" (Dec. 3) has two main problems. First, as regards the constitutional challenge, you say that "it's not as though it's news that the unfunded pension liability ...

Illinois lawmakers declined to move forward on wide-ranging pension reform this spring, frustrating Illinois labor unions.

CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois, a state with a reputation for political wheeling and dealing, backroom handshakes and 11th-hour bargains, is dragging its feet on the one deal needed to solve its ...