Unwilling to hit property owners for the third time in one year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to raise the city’s utility taxes to save the largest of Chicago’s four city employee pension funds, City Hall sources said Monday.

Chief Financial Officer Carole Brown acknowledged that the city needs “in the ballpark” of $250 million to $300 million in new annual revenue to shore up a Municipal Employees Pension fund with 71,000 members and $18.6 billion in unfunded liabilities.

Health insurance premiums for Illinois residents who buy coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace could increase by as much as 45 percent according to proposals submitted by insurers and made public Monday.

The leading insurer on Illinois’ exchange, Blue Cross Blue Shield, is proposing increases for 2017 ranging from 23 percent to 45 percent for individual health care plans, according to proposals posted by Healthcare.gov. Another insurer, Coventry Health Care of Illinois, proposed rate increases as high as 21 percent.

A body camera worn by the Chicago police officer who fatally shot an 18-year-old man in the back last week was not recording at the time of the shooting and did not record the incident, police said Monday.

It’s not clear why the camera was not recording, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Monday.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel defended the city’s record-high property tax increase on Monday — the day that bills reflecting the first effects of the increase were due — saying the boost was needed to protect government workers’ pensions and to maintain the confidence of the business community in Chicago finances.

“There’s a real financial cost, an economic cost to the city, if you don’t address the problem, and it could impact the economic growth,” Emanuel said, referring to his plan to put more taxpayer money into police and fire pension funds that were at risk of going bust in coming years. “And the way that we’re going to do this … is to grow the economy in the city of Chicago.”

Federal prosecutors investigating Lincoln-Way High School District 210 have subpoenaed new records from the embattled school district, including emails sent or received by the former superintendent and certain school board members since 2009, records show.

The U.S. attorney’s office, in its latest subpoena for the school district’s records, is seeking half a dozen categories of records in addition to previously requested documents from the district related to Superdog, a controversial dog training school built by former Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie, and Lincoln-Way’s finances. The subpoenas follow a Daily Southtown investigation that, since January, has revealed questionable financial practices at Lincoln-Way, private uses of public resources and deals benefiting insiders at the district.

Chicago will live up to its fiscally-challenged reputation in the coming year as its pension liabilities soar.

The junk-rated metropolis will pay at least $902 million in 2017 to its four retirement funds that are only 23 percent funded, meaning the pensions have 23 cents for every dollar owed, according to an annual financial analysis released Friday. That’s down from 35 percent last year. The shortfall across the four funds ballooned to $33.8 billion from $20 billion a year earlier, mostly due to new accounting rules.

Although Illinois is in its second fiscal year without a full budget, a recent report finds state legislators are still some of the highest paid in the nation.

According to the Illinois Policy Institute, the state’s legislators have the fifth-highest base salary in the Midwest, at $67,836 per year.

Within the last week, a top member of Illinois House Republican leadership abruptly resigned from the legislature and Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law a birth control bill many of his fellow GOP members opposed.

But suburban House and Senate Republicans presented a unified front Monday at Schaumburg Township Republican offices as they called for the passage of a term limits proposal that, while politically popular, is unlikely to pass the Democratic-controlled General Assembly.