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Extra Extra: Mayor Delays Borrowing $383 Million For City's Debt Problem

By Rachel Cromidas in News on May 19, 2015 10:20PM


  • Following Chicago's debt rating downgrade to "junk" last week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he will delay plans to borrow $383 million to restructure the city's debt. [Tribune]

  • Emily Beazley, a Mount Greenwood 12-year-old who fought cancer in the public eye, met Taylor Swift and threw a first pitch at a White Sox game, died Tuesday morning. [Sun-Times]

  • The Chicago Police Department is investigating the problem of officers sleeping on the job after a video of a sleeping officer went viral on Facebook. [DNAinfo Chicago]

  • A clinical psychologist has been hired to run the Cook County Jail. [Sun-Times]

  • CTA officials touted the need for the $320 Brown Line flyover in a new assessment of the transportation construction project. [DNAinfo Chicago]

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