Extra Extra: DuSable Statue Defaced
By Chuck Sudo in News on Jan 19, 2015 10:45PM
- The bronze bust at Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River of Chicago's "founder," Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, had a mask painted on it in black paint,according to the sculpture's creator Erik Blome. [Tribune]
- Before Stephanie Neely resigned as Chicago's treasurer, she took advantage of a little-known retirement plan that allows politicians to qualify for a taxpayer-funded pension after only eight years of service, instead of the ten years rank-and-file city employees must work before they qualify for the same. [Better Government Association]
- Which is ironic because Mayor Emanuel is arguing the municipal pension system isn't part of city government at all. [Salon]
- With weeks before voters head to the polls, several incumbents and political hopefuls are downplaying their ties to the Daley dynasty. That includes 11th Ward aldermanic candidate Patrick D. Thompson, whose middle name is "Daley," is the former mayor's nephew and lives in his famous grandfather's Bridgeport bungalow. [Reader]
- A bullet fired from a gun in a Rogers Park alley ended its journey in a refrigerator. [DNAInfo Chicago]
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