- Coming nearly a year after it struck down a state plan to overhaul its retirement system ($111B shortfall), the Illinois Supreme Court does the same to Chicago and its $20B pension deficit.
- The decision leaves the city needing to figure out a new way to shore up its retirement plans. It needs to make about an $886M payment this year - more than twice what was necessary a decade ago - and its already pushed through a record property-tax hike. Currently only Detroit among large U.S. cities has a lower credit rating than Chicago.
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