A backroom meeting between CPS board president Michael Scott (now deceased), Arne Duncan, Danny Davis, and Rickey Hendon is making the rounds. I reported on that meeting in 2006.
The Daley administration commands an off-the-books kitty of taxpayer money equivalent to a sixth of the official city budget. Now we’ve got documents that show what they want to do with it.
Brand-new 26th Ward alderman Roberto Maldonado owns more properties than any other council rep—including ten in his own ward. That's a lot of potential conflicts of interest.