Across Illinois, soaring public safety pension costs are at a crisis level and threatening the future of our communities. Pension Fairness for Illinois Communities is a coalition aimed at bringing fairness to the public safety pension system in order to relieve the burden of escalating public safety pension costs on local taxpayers and ensure sustainable retirement benefits for our public safety employees.
November 16, 2010
Illinois Mayors, Business Leaders travel to Springfield to demand immediate legislative relief from escalating public safety pension costs. View the full press release (PDF).
November 9, 2010
Police, fire pensions need legislative 911: The Chicago Sun-Times published an editorial calling on the General Assembly to enact meaningful public safety pension reform during veto session this month following last week's referendum results. Visit our Referendum Tracker to see the outcome of the referenda in all 44 Illinois communities - on average 83% of voters said YES to public safety pension reform.
Public Safety Pension Reform Referenda Results are In: The majority of voters in Illinois communities urge the General Assembly to take action now and implement steps to reform public safety pension systems.
*Island Lake, Lake County result shown above. Island Lake, McHenry County Yes Vote was 82%
