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John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network Pension reform gets its day in court. Defending the 2013 pension law before the Illinois Supreme Court was Illinois Solicitor General Carolyn Shapiro, who said the state is allowed to use its so-called 'police powers' to alter contracts, such as pension benefits, in an emergency...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network Whether the state can legally change pension benefits for state employees will be argued before the Illinois Supreme Court today. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan believes the argument that Illinois in such dire straits financially that it must amend pension benefits will hold up before the court, though it won't erase the entire unfunded liability... R

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has dealt a blow to public sector unions -- ruling that thousands of home health care workers in Illinois can't be required to pay fees that help cover the union's cost of collective bargaining. It was a 5-to-4 ruling, split along ideological lines...