Less than two months after the resignation of a Chicago Public Schools official accused of accepting improper gifts from the district's two largest food vendors, the district on Monday said it intends to renew contracts for those vendors, Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality and Preferred Meal Systems. [Chicago Tribune]
Chicago police are investigating whether its supervisors whose names have appeared in news reports during the NATO summit coverage had been targeted online, a police source said. [Chicago Tribune]
Chicago Democrat Mary Jane Theis Tuesday garnered 189,692 votes, or more than 50 percent, prevailing in the 1st District Democratic primary for the Illinois Supreme Court, according to the Board of Elections and Cook County Clerk websites.
Millions more took rides on CTA trains and buses last year, resulting in the system’s busiest year in the past two decades. More than 530 million rides were recorded, an increase of 3 percent over 2010.
Federal prosecutors today charged State Rep. Derrick Smith with accepting a $7,000 cash bribe to write an official letter of support for a daycare center that he believed was seeking a state grant.
