Ed Bachrach

Founder, Center for Pension Integrity

Look for Chicago's pension mess to become worse. That's a bad sign for taxpayers.

The city took in big tax revenues from federal COVID-19 bailouts, but Chicago’s pension shortfall still grew by $10 billion over the last five years. The warnings about a pension crisis will get worse as the COVID money runs dry.

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