Suburban And Downstate Mayors Call For Police And Fire Pension Reform

More than two dozen mayors and village presidents from Chicago’s suburbs and downstate are warning Illinois lawmakers not to forget that they are undergoing a police and fire pension crisis of their own, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.

South suburban Lynwood Mayor Eugene Williams says municipalities outside of Chicago are being crippled by ballooning public safety pension costs even as they try to develop communities like his…Please click here to read or hear Craig Dellimore’s story on CBS Chicago, or here for a related story in the Tribune and here for ABC 7 Chicago.