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Extra Extra: 'Good Riddance' Mayor Says Of Disgraced Cops In Photo

By Rachel Cromidas in News on May 27, 2015 9:45PM


  • "Good riddance," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday in response to the release of a photo in which two disgraced police officers posed with a black man they arrested and dressed in antlers. [Sun-Times]

  • Bears Chairman George McCaskey has been questioning whether the decision to sign Ray McDonald, who was just arrested on charges of domestic abuse, in the first place was the wrong one. You think? [Tribune]

  • Chicago's minimum wage increase to $10 an hour is still not even close to enough to live on for the average family. [Chicago Reporter]

  • Taste of Chicago has announced its food lineup, which includes special celebrity guest dinners and new restaurants such as Dia De Los Tomales. [Tribune]

  • A federal judge has sentenced the ex-chief of staff to Ald. Howard Brookins to 15 months in prison in a bribery case. [Sun-Times]
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