Retired state employee backs pension buyouts for Chicago police, fire

Even though some of John VanVleet’s peers were skeptical about the state’s pension buyout program for public employees, he decided to take advantage of it. “A lot of people had this conversation where they weren’t sure if they wanted to take it,” said VanVleet, 53, who was the training coordinator at Hill Correctional Center in... The post Retired state employee backs pension buyouts for Chicago police, fire appeared first on Illinois Policy.