“Chicago isn’t the only government with a looming pension crisis. Numbers compiled by the Cook County Treasurer’s office and secreted my way show about a quarter of the government entities under the county umbrella have more retirees than they do employees.” Comment: The author, Shia Kapos, evidently isn’t a Wirepoints reader if she finds this to be news.

The controversial move is aimed at saving Chicago taxpayers $107 million in annual costs that would have ballooned to $307 million by 2018 and $541 million by 2023 if left unchecked, a mayoral commission had warned. But it means that roughly 10,000 city employees who started working for the city before April 1, 1986, and do not qualify for Medicare will be on their own to search for coverage that will be difficult or too expensive to find.

The bitter divorce between the once-powerful United Neighborhood Organization and the vast, government-funded charter-school network it created has been settled — at a cost to taxpayers of $4.5 million, according to records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Comment: Glad to know that, since I’m personally a big bird fan, but I haven’t talked to a single person who has been to Northerly Island since Mayor Daley’s 2003 predawn, sneak attack bulldozing Meigs Field there.

Comment: A 20-year Chicago police sergeant told me he thinks the new bodycam requirement for new cops will mean “the end of policing as we know it,” and that Chicago will see a 30% increase in violent crime next year.

A spokesman for House Speaker Michael Madigan says Democrats did not have enough votes to override a veto from Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner that eliminates $215 million in aid for Chicago Public Schools’ pension payments. Senate Democrats used their supermajority Thursday to override the governor shortly after the veto but the House did not vote on the matter before adjourning for the year. Madigan spokesman Steve Brown says the assessment was they “would not be able to override.”