Gov. JB Pritzker just signed the pension benefits bill, HB 3657, into law. Since then, editorials have used it to attack the men and women of the Chicago Fire Department. They focus on price tags and pension costs, but they rarely talk about the people who do the work.

Being a firefighter isn’t just a paycheck. It’s missing your kid’s first steps because someone else’s family needed you more in that moment. It is a job that takes a toll on your body and your mind. It is dangerous — dangerous enough that we have lost six members in the last four years. Not one of these editorials has mentioned that.

Just last week, we responded to a mayday — the call no firefighter ever wants to hear — when a firefighter went down in a fire. They pulled him out and the fire was extinguished. No press conf

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