Government employee unions gathered in Springfield earlier this year for a day of action in support of changing “Tier 2,” the state of Illinois retirement benefit for workers hired on or after Jan. 1, ...

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 a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Public employees hired since 2011 must continue to wait for pension reform after Illinois lawmakers declined to take up the issue during the spring session. Lawmakers and labor ...

It’s a critical time to fix Illinois’ pension program for public-sector employees hired after 2011 — but it may not happen this fall, state Rep. Jay Hoffman told pension-eligible employees of Southern ...

The state's public pensions are in disastrous financial shape. But a report prepared by Illinois Policy Institute analyst LyLena Estabine not only outlines the situation, but proposes solutions to a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Mayors across Illinois are demanding that state lawmakers address serious shortfalls in local police and fire pension funds. The effort comes after the Illinois Legislature dealt ...

Members of a bipartisan committee of Illinois lawmakers facing forward from left, State Sen. Daniel Bliss, State Sen. William E. Brady, and State Sen. Matt Murphy listen to Ty Fahner, head of the ...