(40 ILCS 5/6-151) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 6-151)

Sec. 6-151.

An active fireman who is or becomes disabled on or after the
effective date as the result of a specific injury, or of cumulative
injuries, or of specific sickness incurred in or resulting from an act or
acts of duty, shall have the right to receive duty disability benefit
during any period of such disability for which he does not receive or have
a right to receive salary, equal to 75% of his salary at the time the
disability is allowed.  However, beginning January 1, 1994, no
duty disability benefit that has been payable under this Section for at least
10 years shall be less than 50%
of the current salary attached from time to time to the rank and grade held
by the fireman at the time of his removal from the Department payroll,
regardless of whether that removal occurred before the effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1993.

Whenever an active fireman is or becomes so injured or sick, as to
require medical or hospital attention, the chief officer of the fire
department of the city shall file, or cause to be filed, with the board a
report of the nature and cause of his disability, together with the
certificate or report of the physician attending or treating, or who
attended or treated the fireman, and a copy of any hospital record
concerning the disability.  Any injury or sickness not reported to the board
in time to permit the board's physician to examine the fireman before his
recovery, and any injury or sickness for which a physician's report or copy
of the hospital record is not on file with the board shall not be
considered for the payment of duty disability benefit.

Such fireman shall also receive a child's disability benefit of $30 per
month on account of each unmarried child, the issue of the fireman or
legally adopted by him, who is less
than 18 years of age or handicapped and dependent upon the fireman for
support.   The total amount of child's disability benefit shall not exceed
25% of his salary at the time the disability is allowed.

The first payment of duty disability or child's disability benefit shall
be made not later than one month after the benefit is granted.  Each
subsequent payment shall be made not later than one month after the date of
the latest payment.

Duty disability benefit shall be payable during the period of the
disability until the fireman reaches the age of compulsory retirement.
Child's disability benefit shall be paid to such a fireman during the
period of disability until such child or children attain age 18 or marries,
whichever event occurs first; except that attainment of age 18 by a child
who is so physically or mentally handicapped as to be dependent upon the
fireman for support, shall not render the child ineligible for child's
disability benefit.  The fireman shall thereafter receive such
annuity or annuities as are provided for him in accordance with other
provisions of this Article.

For the purposes of this Section only, any fireman who becomes disabled as a result of  exposure to and contraction of COVID-19, as evidenced by either  a confirmed positive laboratory test for COVID-19 or COVID-19 antibodies or  a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 from a licensed medical professional shall:

(1) be rebuttably presumed to have contracted COVID-19 while in the performance of an