Chicago’s pension fiasco: Losses for city worker retirement funds at $54 million – Chicago Sun-Times

“A dozen years ago, five financially strapped city of Chicago pension funds invested $68 million in a shaky real estate deal put together by a former boss of President Barack Obama and a nephew of Mayor Richard M. Daley…. Not only did the pension funds not make a profit, records show they will end up losing a combined $54.2 million for the retirement plans.”

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