Collins v. Board of Trustees

PRESIDING JUSTICE McNULTY

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from the trial court’s order granting the Board of Trustees of the Firemen’s Annuity Benefit of Chicago’s (Board’s) motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ complaint for declaratory judgment seeking to declare section 6 — 210.1 of the Illinois Pension Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 108½, par. 6—210.1) unconstitutional under article XIII, section 5, of the Illinois Constitution.

Prior to July 1983, paramedics of the Emergency Medical Services Bureau of the Chicago Fire Department were members of the Municipal Employees’,…