By Adam Schuster and Bill Reveille, includes “… Ultimately, it is impossible for Lightfoot or any other person to close Chicago’s long-term structural budget deficit without constitutional pension reform to slow the growth in future benefit increases. … Until and unless Lightfoot becomes an advocate for a constitutional amendment and true pension reform, city taxpayers will continue to see tax hikes year after year and the city will continue to spend more than it brings in, as it has since at least 2003.”