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Emanuel’s risky pension assumption forces city to borrow $220M

Posted on March 22, 2016

Chicago Sun-Times

This article reports on payments made to Chicago's police and fire pension funds using $220 million in short-term borrowing. Laurence Msall, President of the Civic Federation, called the borrowing an unfortunate, expensive, yet forseeable development, due to the lack of contingency planning in the City’s FY2016 budget.