Western Cook County’s 53 police and fire pension funds paid out a total of $97,778,122 in benefits to 1,894 retirees and inactive recipients in 2016 while losing $4,160,610 on their investments, according to a West Cook News analysis of the funds' mandated financial filings with the Illinois Department of Insurance.
Schiller Park School District 81 has $26,529,601 in debt, which is $6,619 per household in the district, according to Illinois State Board of Education 2016 financial reports obtained by the West Cook News.
Field Stevenson Elementary School's 2016 standardized test scores increased compared to scores from 2015, according to a report recently released by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
Here are the 34 former employees of Proviso Township receiving the highest annual pension payouts, according to 2015 Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) records: