Extra Extra: CPS Asks Teachers For 7% Pay Cut
CPS is asking teachers to take a 7 percent pay cut in their next contract—a request Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis plans to fight. [Tribune]
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says his new CTA chief, Dorval R. Carter Jr., will take the transit agency "to the next level," but eschews the obvious "El" puns in his announcement. Carter is replacing Forrest Claypool, who has been hired on as Emanuel's new chief of staff. [Sun-Times]
A whopping 637 correctional officers across the county called in sick between 7 a.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday last weekend, leading the Sun-Times to wonder if they caught a collective case of the Pacquiao-Mayweather flu. [Sun-Times]
The Museum of Broadcast Communications is hoping a new exhibition on "Advertising's Greatest Icons" will draw visitors to the scarcely-attended State Street museum. [Reader]
A federal judge is barring the state's juvenile detention centers from using solitary confinement to punish inmates, under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. [WBEZ]
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