January 1, 2020
Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks Thursday, Nov. 14 during a news conference at the Capitol in Springfield about the General Assembly’s passage of legislation to consolidate 649 downstate and suburban police and firefighter pensions into two unified systems. The bill was the byproduct of a task force that Pritzker appointed in February. Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki
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PRITZKER SIGNS PENSION CONSOLIDATION BILL INTO LAW
Springfield — A new law recently signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker will consolidate 649 downstate and suburban police and firefighter pension funds into just two. Pritzker signed the measure, passed in the recent fall veto session, in Chicago and hailed it as an initiative 70 years in the making.