Progress Illinois

An overhaul of the city of Chicago's Municipal Employees and Laborers pension funds is "unconstitutional and void," a Cook County Judge ruled Friday.

In a win for public workers and retirees, a Sangamon County Circuit Court judge ruled Friday that Illinois' controversial pension reform law is "unconstitutional and void in its entirety."

A Sangamon County Circuit Court judge will hear arguments Thursday involving Illinois' pension reform overhaul, which is being challenged by the We Are One Illinois coalition of unions and other plaintiffs.

A Sangamon County judge has given both sides in the pension reform lawsuit until June 13 to file their next round of documents in the case.