“Gary Grasso, a DuPage County Board member and former Burr Ridge mayor, also said he supports calling a state constitutional convention to revisit the pension clause in the 1970 Illinois Constitution. The clause says that public pensions are 'an enforceable contractual relationship, the benefits of which shall not be diminished or impaired,' language which has been strictly interpreted by the Illinois Supreme Court.”
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