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“I’m so glad to see our aldermen here saying they’ll do their due diligence to help with this financial crisis,” Action Now executive director Denise Dixon said at a press conference / rally outside council chambers earlier today.
In other words, Chicago is in such a state that Dixon was genuinely fired up at the notion that members of the legislative branch would pledge to ask for a few more details about the budget and lease deals—maybe even before they vote to approve them.
“In order to make intelligent decisions, we need transparency with city finances,” said Tom Balanoff, the president of the state council of the Service Employees International Union.
And city officials have just announced that the Midway lease deal fell through because the lessor couldn’t come up with the cash. Officials say they’re open to trying again, and if they do, aldermen will have another chance to ask the questions they didn’t before.
