by:  Diane Benjamin As reported in the Chicago Tribune:  http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-government-entities-lost-tens-of-millions-imet-investment-20150410-htmlstory.html The Illinois Metropolitan Investment Fund — which invests public money on behalf of municipalities, pension funds and local government boards — revealed in October that it had lost more than $50 million after investing in loans now at the center of a federal criminal investigation. […]