Aldermen kill a proposal to discuss school policies but find time to take on Eliot Ness.
by Ben Joravsky
With Chicago's public schools so broke that Mayor Rahm Emanuel decided to close 50 of them last year, you'd think the City Council would have more on its agenda than Eliot Ness, a crime fighter during Prohibition in the 1920s and 30s. But last week the council buried a proposal to hold hearings on the mayor's ambitious plan to expand charter schools, assigning it to the infamous rules committee.…[ Read more ]