Much has been made about pension funding problems at the state level and in the city of Chicago. But the next shoe to drop could involve suburban towns and other municipalities throughout the state.

Hundreds of them have dug pension holes that will take years to get out of, and a recent settlement in suburban Harvey could have implications across the state.

A for-profit company that educates at-risk students won tens of millions of dollars from Chicago Public Schools with help from then-CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and her co-conspirators in a separate bribery scandal, the school district’s inspector general found in a report released Tuesday.

That “highly unethical conduct” was essential for Camelot Education to open four CPS campuses several years ago, Inspector General Nicholas Schuler’s office said in the report. Camelot now operates six schools in CPS, with a total of about 800 students, and the Texas-based company has received more than $67 million in district business, the IG said.

Divvy is fighting back against those caught blue-handed.

Following a “recent series of thefts,” Chicago’s bike-sharing program, which debuted in June 2013, is undertaking a wide-scale retrofit of all its docks, a Divvy spokeswoman wrote in an emailed statement.

Gurnee Mayor Kristina Kovarik said the farmland just south of Six Flags Great America could one day be home to a bustling sports complex with nearby new restaurants, hotels, public space and possibly condos.

Next week the village board could approve a plan to pay a consultant around $48,000 to study whether such a development would be feasible on the 35-acre, triangular parcel bordered by Washington Street, Milwaukee Avenue and Interstate 294 across Washington Street from Great America.

Contract talks between Elgin Area School District U-46 and its teachers union are expected to resume soon.

In May, the Elgin Teachers Association — the union representing the district’s 2,448 teachers — and U-46 administration reached a tentative agreement on a new multiyear contract for the 2018-21 school years that would have provided raises to all teachers.

A utility tax approved by City Council in January has bought Rockford time to develop a financial plan as the city readies to confront a financial crisis.

The tax on natural gas and electricity is expected to produce more than $9 million a year, but with improving technologies and energy efficiency it is a stagnant funding source. Meanwhile, the city’s employee pension costs and salary growth continue to outpace its revenue growth.