Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
Charters Not Only Way To Fix Chicago Schools
The Sun-Times editorial board calls the much-hyped education report by the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago "an overly simplistic analysis of test data."Reaping What They Sow
The credit card industry is raising rates and limiting lending in anticipation of new federal regulations, and the Washington Independent's Mike Lillis reminds Rep. Luis Gutierrez and congressional Democrats that they have nobody to blame but themselves.City Payments
Want to know who does business with the City of Chicago? Check out CityPayments, a new database of all vendors, contracts, and payments maintained by the Department of Procurement Services.
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