Wall Street agency joins Lightfoot in bashing bill Pritzker signed boosting pension benefits for Chicago firefighters

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Wall Street agency joins Lightfoot in bashing bill Pritzker signed boosting pension benefits for Chicago firefighters

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, left, speaks during a bill signing in 2019; Mayor Lori Lightfoot, right, meets with the Sun-Times Editorial Board in 2019. | Amr Alfiky/AP file; Rich Hein/Sun-Times file“The legislation is credit negative for the city of Chicago,” said the advisory from Moody’s Investors Service, “because it will cause the city’s reported unfunded pension liabilities, and thus its annual contribution requirements, to rise.”A Wall Street rat…