Column: Retired state legislators’ money grab rejected by Supreme Court – Champaign News-Gazette*

Jim Dey: "It’s not often the good guys in the fetid and festering sewer that is Illinois government win a round. But (Comptroller Susana) Mendoza claimed a solid victory Thursday when the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled that two former legislators who had joined their colleagues to publicly renounce scheduled pay raises weren’t entitled to collect the money years later."