Gov. JB Pritzker’s decision to sign a pension sweetener for Chicago police officers hired after 2010 will turn up the heat on a reluctant City Council to raise property taxes — and on the Illinois General Assembly to bail the city out of an even deeper financial hole.

On Friday night, while most Chicagoans were focused on plans for a weekend of spectacular summer weather, Pritzker signed a bill that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration claims would raise the city’s annual pension contribution by $60 million in 2027 — and by $753 million in 2055.

The overall impact would make Chicago’s $35.9 billion pension crisis $11 billion worse.

Top mayoral aides have branded the bill an “unfunded mandate.” But senior mayoral adviser Jason Lee said Pritzker’s signature was not a surprise.

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