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Below are the latest stories on the pension issue in Illinois.

State Week: Chicago Teachers Strike, Lightfoot's Springfield Agenda, Troubled Local Pensions

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Brian Mackey
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Chicago teachers on are on strike as freshman Mayor Lori Lightfoot makes some big requests of lawmakers in Springfield. Billionaire Gov. J.B. Pritzker releases summaries of his annual tax returs, and uses them to promote a graduated income tax for Illinois. And we take a closer look at the proposed asset consolidation for the hundreds of troubled downstate and surburban local police and fire pension funds.

Brian Mackey hosts with regular panelist Charlie Wheeler, and guests Greg Hinz of Crain’s Chicago Business and Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Brian Mackey formerly reported on state government and politics for NPR Illinois and a dozen other public radio stations across the state. Before that, he was A&E editor at The State Journal-Register and Statehouse bureau chief for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
The former director of the Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) graduate program is Professor Charles N. Wheeler III, a veteran newsman who came to the University of Illinois at Springfield following a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times.
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