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CHICAGO — Courtney Billittier comes from a long line of educators, including her father who recently retired after 35 years of teaching. But Billittier, who has been teaching for the past 14 years, will have to work longer than her father to earn a smaller pension.

That’s because state lawmakers passed pension reform legislation to deal with a budget crisis in 2010 that created new standards for public sector employees hired at the start of 2011. The result is a two tiered pension

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