Chicago needs one real watchdog
Via Chicago-Tribune
Mayoral operatives. Political rivals. Angry constituents who were denied a parking sticker.
There’s a long line of people, we’re told, who’d like to whisper falsehoods about Chicago aldermen in the inspector general’s ear.
For decades, the City Council refused to subject itself to the oversight of City Hall’s inspector general, citing the threat of political “witch hunts” and the need to keep the executive and legislative branches at arm’s length.
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