Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today his picks for the five-member board of the Infrastructure Trust, a plan
to use private money to finance public projects that passed the City
Council in April. The council, which next meets June 27, must approve
each choice.
But the mayor has still not identified Trust
projects, except a plan where private investors would use $225 million to make
some city buildings more energy efficient. Emanuel spokesman Tom
Alexander said in an interview last week that, currently, there are no
additional projects on the table. Read more »
With two months to go, the race for Cook County Circuit Clerk is an odd mix of wonky discussion on how to run a judicial bureaucracy -- and hyberbolic charges and counter-charges by 12-year incumbent Dorothy Brown and challenger Rick Munoz, who has been Chicago's 22nd Ward alderman since 1993. 