Borg v. Village of Schiller Park Police Pension Board

This is an appeal from two rulings by the circuit court of Cook County, the first of which upheld the Schiller Park Police Pension Board’s denial of Edward J. Borg’s application for pension benefits and the second of which overturned the Board’s denial of a refund of the money Borg had contributed to the pension fund. On appeal, Borg argues that the felony divestiture provision of the Illinois Pension Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 1081/2, par. 3—147) relied on by the Board to deny him pension benefits is inapplicable to him because he became a policeman before July 11, 1955. The Board…