Chapter 40 — PENSIONS

(40 ILCS 5/8-144) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-144) Sec. 8-144. Widow's annuity-Present employees and future entrants-Death in service before 65. The widow of an employee whose death occurs in service before age 65 shall be entitled to an annuity of the amount provided on a single l…

(40 ILCS 5/8-145) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-145) Sec. 8-145. Widow's annuity-Present employees and future entrants-Withdrawal after age 60 but before 65. The widow of an employee who attains age 60 or more but less than age 65 in service and who withdraws, shall be entitled after…

(40 ILCS 5/8-146) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-146) Sec. 8-146. Widow's annuity - Present employees and future entrants - Withdrawal after age 55 but before 60. The widow of an employee who, (1) attains age 55 or more but less than age 60 in service and (2) has served 10 or more yea…

(40 ILCS 5/8-147) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-147) Sec. 8-147. Widow's annuity - Present employees and future entrants - Withdrawal before age 55. The widow of an employee who withdraws after 10 or more years of service before age 55 and later attains such age while not in service,…

(40 ILCS 5/8-148) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-148) Sec. 8-148. Widow's annuities - Present employees and future entrants - Withdrawal and death before age 55. The widow of an employee with 10 or more years of service who withdraws before age 55 and who dies while out of service bef…

(40 ILCS 5/8-149) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-149) Sec. 8-149. Widow's annuities-Re-entry of employee into service. No annuity in excess of that fixed in accordance with Sections 8-145, 8-146 and 8-147 shall be granted to a widow described in those sections unless the employee re-e…

(40 ILCS 5/8-150) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-150) Sec. 8-150. Employee's widow's annuities - No contributions or service credits after fixation. No contributions by the employee or by the city for an annuity for the widow of an employee shall be made after the date when her annuit…

(40 ILCS 5/8-150.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-150.1) Sec. 8-150.1. Minimum annuities for widows. The widow (otherwise eligible for widow's annuity under other Sections of this Article 8) of an employee hereinafter described, who retires from service or dies while in the service s…

(40 ILCS 5/8-151) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-151) Sec. 8-151. Compensation annuity and supplemental annuity. When annuity otherwise provided in this Article for the widow of an employee whose death results solely from injury incurred in the performance of an act of duty is less th…

(40 ILCS 5/8-152) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-152) Sec. 8-152. Widows or former wives not entitled to annuity. Except as provided in Section 8-152.1, the following widows or former wives of employees have no right to annuity from the fund: (a) The widow, married subsequent to the e…

(40 ILCS 5/8-152.1) Sec. 8-152.1. Widow's annuity for widow married to member for at least 10 years. Notwithstanding Section 8-152 or any other provision of this Code to the contrary, if (1) a member has a spouse who would have qualified for a minimum annuity for widows under Sec…

(40 ILCS 5/8-153) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-153) Sec. 8-153. Widow's remarriage. A widow's annuity shall terminate when she remarries if the marriage takes place before the date 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. If a widow remar…

(40 ILCS 5/8-153.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-153.1) Sec. 8-153.1. Annuities to survivors of female employees. All provisions of this Article relating to annuities or benefits to a widow, minor children or other survivors of a male employee shall apply with equal force to a survi…

(40 ILCS 5/8-154) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-154) Sec. 8-154. Maximum annuities. (1) The annuities to an employee and his widow are subject to the following limitations: (a) No age and service annuity, or age and service and prior service annuity combined, in excess of 60% of the …

(40 ILCS 5/8-155) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-155) Sec. 8-155. Mortality tables and interest rates. (a) Any single life annuity fixed or granted to any employee who was a participant on or before January 1, 1952, or any reversionary or single life annuity, fixed for or granted to a…

(40 ILCS 5/8-156) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-156) Sec. 8-156. Computation of interest. For the computation of interest upon any sum contributed by an employee into any municipal pension fund or into this fund, it shall be assumed that the sum was contributed on the last day of the…

(40 ILCS 5/8-157) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-157) Sec. 8-157. Term annuities-How computed. In any case in which an employee's credit for an annuity for himself is insufficient--at the time the annuity is fixed or granted--to provide for him a life annuity of $100 a month, a term a…

(40 ILCS 5/8-158) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-158) Sec. 8-158. Child's annuity. A child's annuity is payable monthly after the death of an employee parent to the child until the child's attainment of age 18, under the following conditions, if the child was born before the employee …

(40 ILCS 5/8-159) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-159) Sec. 8-159. Amount of child's annuity. Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, the amount of a child's annuity shall be $220 per month for each child while the spouse of the deceased employee parent survives…

(40 ILCS 5/8-160) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-160) Sec. 8-160. Duty disability benefit - Child's disability benefit. An employee who becomes disabled after the effective date while under age 65 and prior to January 1, 1979 or while under age 70 after January 1, 1979 as the result o…

(40 ILCS 5/8-161) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-161) Sec. 8-161. Ordinary disability benefit. An employee while under age 65 and prior to January 1, 1979, or while under age 70 and after January 1, 1979, who becomes disabled after the effective date as the result of any cause other t…

(40 ILCS 5/8-161.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-161.1) Sec. 8-161.1. Limitations on payment of duty and ordinary disability. (a) Disablement because of commonly termed heart attacks, or strokes, or any disablement falling within the broad field of coronary involvement or heart dise…

(40 ILCS 5/8-162) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-162) Sec. 8-162. Proof of disability, duty and ordinary. Proof of duty or ordinary disability shall be furnished to the board by at least one licensed and practicing physician appointed by the board. The board may require other evidence…

(40 ILCS 5/8-163) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-163) Sec. 8-163. When disability benefit not payable. (a) If an employee receiving duty or ordinary disability benefit refuses to submit to examination by a physician appointed by the board, or fails or refuses to consent to and sign an…

(40 ILCS 5/8-164) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-164) Sec. 8-164. Annuity after withdrawal while disabled. An employee whose disability continues after he has received ordinary disability benefit for the maximum period of time prescribed by this Article, and who withdraws before age 6…

(40 ILCS 5/8-164.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-164.1) Sec. 8-164.1. Payments to city. (a) For the purposes of this Section, "city annuitant" means a person receiving an age and service annuity, a widow's annuity, a child's annuity, or a minimum annuity under this Article as a dire…

(40 ILCS 5/8-164.2) Sec. 8-164.2. Payments to board of education for group health benefits. (a) Should the Board of Education continue to sponsor a retiree health plan, the board is authorized to pay to the Board of Education, on behalf of each eligible annuitant who chooses to p…

(40 ILCS 5/8-165) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-165) Sec. 8-165. Re-entry into service. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) or (d), when an employee receiving age and service or prior service annuity who has withdrawn from service after the effective date re-enters service befor…

(40 ILCS 5/8-166) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-166) Sec. 8-166. Re-entry into service-Prior employee. An employee who was not in the service of an employer on the day prior to the effective date, and who was in service prior to that date, who re-enters service after that date and be…

(40 ILCS 5/8-167) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-167) Sec. 8-167. Restoration of rights. An employee who has withdrawn as a refund the amounts credited for annuity purposes, and who (i) re-enters service of the employer and serves for periods comprising at least 90 days after the date…

(40 ILCS 5/8-168) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-168) Sec. 8-168. Refunds - Withdrawal before age 55 or age 62 or with less than 10 years of service. 1. An employee who first became a member before January 1, 2011, without regard to length of service, who withdraws before age 55, and …

(40 ILCS 5/8-169) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-169) Sec. 8-169. Refund of widow's annuity deductions. When a male employee is (1) unmarried when he attains age 65, (2) married at age 65, and subsequently becomes a widower while still in service, or (3) unmarried upon withdrawal befo…

(40 ILCS 5/8-169.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-169.1) Sec. 8-169.1. Refund of salary deductions to widow. If a male employee with less than 20 years of service dies while in the service after attaining age 65 and leaves a widow eligible for widow's annuity who does not qualify for…

(40 ILCS 5/8-170) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-170) Sec. 8-170. Refunds - When paid to beneficiary, children or estate. Whenever the accumulations including interest credited thereon to the account of a deceased employee from employee contributions for annuity purposes, and from emp…

(40 ILCS 5/8-171) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-171) Sec. 8-171. Refund in lieu of annuity. In lieu of an annuity, an employee who withdraws and whose annuity would amount to less than $800 a month for life, may elect to receive a refund of his accumulated contributions for annuity p…

(40 ILCS 5/8-172) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-172) Sec. 8-172. Refunds - Transfer of city contributions. Whenever any amount is refunded as provided in Sections 8-168 and 8-169, except in the case of a male employee who becomes a widower while in service after he becomes age 65, th…

(40 ILCS 5/8-172.1) Sec. 8-172.1. Transfer of city contributions for paramedics. (a) Municipality credits computed and credited under this Article 8 for all persons who (1) accumulated service credit in this Article 8 fund for service as a paramedic, (2) have terminated that Arti…

(40 ILCS 5/8-173) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-173) Sec. 8-173. Financing; tax levy. (a) Except as provided in subsection (f) of this Section, the city council of the city shall levy a tax annually upon all taxable property in the city at a rate that will produce a sum which, when a…

(40 ILCS 5/8-173.1) Sec. 8-173.1. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 98-641, eff. 6-9-14. Repealed by P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

(40 ILCS 5/8-174) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-174) Sec. 8-174. Contributions for age and service annuities for present employees and future entrants. (a) Beginning on the effective date and prior to July 1, 1947, 3 1/4%; and beginning on July 1, 1947 and prior to July 1, 1953, 5%; …

(40 ILCS 5/8-174.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-174.1) Sec. 8-174.1. Employer contributions on behalf of employees. (a) The employer may make and may incur an obligation to make contributions on behalf of its employees in an amount not to exceed the employee contributions required …

(40 ILCS 5/8-174.2) Sec. 8-174.2. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 98-641, eff. 6-9-14. Repealed by P.A. 103-443, eff. 8-4-23.)

(40 ILCS 5/8-175) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-175) Sec. 8-175. Additional credits-Public school employees. The board shall ascertain the contributions of each employee who on June 30, 1923, was a contributor to any municipal pension fund then in operation in the city under the Publ…

(40 ILCS 5/8-176) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-176) Sec. 8-176. Additional credits-To July 1, 1923. The board shall also ascertain the service rendered by each present employee who did not attain age 65 prior to July 1, 1923, and the service rendered by each future entrant between t…

(40 ILCS 5/8-177) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-177) Sec. 8-177. Additional credits-To July 1, 1935. The board shall also ascertain the service rendered by each employee who was employed by the board on June 30, 1935, between the day before the effective date and July 1, 1935, or the…

(40 ILCS 5/8-178) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-178) Sec. 8-178. Credit-Employees in certain other superseded funds. Every employee who, on December 31, 1959, was a contributor to an annuity and benefit fund in the city under the Court and Law Department Employee's Annuity Act, or un…

(40 ILCS 5/8-178.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-178.1) Sec. 8-178.1. Credit - Employees in superseded Public Library Employes' Pension Fund. Every employee who, on December 31, 1965, was a contributor and participant in the fund in operation in the city on such date created under a…

(40 ILCS 5/8-178.2) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-178.2) Sec. 8-178.2. Credit-Employees in superseded House of Correction Employees' Pension Fund. Every employee who, on December 31, 1968, was a contributor and participant in the fund in operation in the city on such date created und…

(40 ILCS 5/8-179) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-179) Sec. 8-179. Additional credit-Present employees. The board shall also ascertain the service rendered by each present employee who attained age 65 subsequent to the day before the effective date and prior to July 1, 1923, between th…

(40 ILCS 5/8-180) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-180) Sec. 8-180. Additional contributions and credits-All employees. Any employee in service on July 1, 1947 may elect to make additional contributions while in service which shall not exceed 7/13 of the sum accumulated on July 1, 1947,…