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Moody's downgrades Chicago's debt rating

Posted on March 03, 2015

Chicago Tribune

This article covers the credit downgrade issued for the City of Chicago by Moody’s Investors Service on February 27. The Civic Federation said decades of underfunding the pension systems has led to the City’s current financial challenges, and it is difficult to see how the City could continue to meet its required pension contributions without new revenues or reductions in City services.