Willie Wilson: Illinois and Chicago avoid confronting pension debt at their peril – Chicago Tribune*

"Budgets are about priorities, and unfortunately, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Illinois leaders are not being completely honest with Illinoisans....The Taxpayer Pension Alliance — a group made up of Ted Dabrowski from Wirepoints, Josh Bandoch from the Illinois Policy Institute, Dennis LaComb of the Technology & Manufacturing Association and Ed Bachrach, who founded the Center for Pension Integrity — recently sent a letter to Mayor Brandon Johnson sounding the alarm on the city of Chicago’s unfunded pension liability, which is more than $52 billion."