Chicago Sun-Times—Ald. Carrie Austin gives son top ward job, “If they ever make a sit-com about Chicago’s City Hall, it might be called, ‘All in the Family.’ Now, Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) has crafted a new episode — by installing her son as her ward superintendent….The 34th Ward was one of ten wards involved in a 10-week surveillance that prompted then-Inspector General David Hoffman to conclude in 2008 that Chicago was wasting $21 million-a-year on garbage collection crews ‘paid to do nothing for 25 percent of their time on the clock.”
- Chicago Sun-Times—City cuts back rat control, forestry services to maintain trash pickups, “The Daley administration is making dramatic cutbacks in forestry and rodent control services as it struggles to sweep the streets and pick up garbage amid a two-year hiring freeze and chronic absenteeism.”
- Bloomington Pantagraph—‘Extremely low’ turnout predicted for Tuesday’s election, “The last municipal election in 2009 attracted fewer than 20 percent of McLean County voters and election officials don’t expect to surpass that number in Tuesday’s election.”
