Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 40 ILCS 5/5-101

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
     In each city of more than 500,000 inhabitants a policemen’s annuity and benefit fund shall be created and maintained for the benefit of its policemen, their widows and children, and of all contributors to, participants in, and beneficiaries of any police pension fund in operation, by authority of law, in such city immediately prior to the effective date. For the purposes of this Article, the policemen’s annuity and benefit fund may be referred to as the “fund.”