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							<title><![CDATA[Pensions Padded Despite IL Deficit Crisis]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Schmadeke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortly before Tim Baldermann retired as Chicago Ridge's police chief,  the town  boosted his salary by more than $70,000, handing the  44-year-old as big a paycheck in retirement as he earned full time on  the police force.  The deputy police chief, who sat on the pension board,...]]></description>
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