- Jesse & the jets. Southtown Star reports the senior Jackson is asking Governor Quinn to make good on campaign promise to support construction of a new airport in south suburban Peotone. Rev. Jackson says the project would create sorely needed jobs and relieve the property tax burden on homeowners.
- Indigestion? Also worth reading in the Southtown Star: an editorial weighing in on tone deaf board members in Tinley Park School District 146 who see nothing wrong with spending nearly $1,000 on two dinners for superintendent candidates.
- Ciao Cabrini. Reporter Don Terry of the Chicago News Coop looks back at Cabrini-Green’s troubled history as the last resident moves out of a development that came to symbolize the failure of a public housing strategy that relied on packing people into projects with multiple high-rise buildings.
- Pension piece. The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago continues its stellar campaign to reform city and state pensions with an eye-opening study of the projected payouts to retired city workers. R. Eden Martin, president of the Civic Committee, writes about the study and other pension crisis signs in the Tribune.
- “Why is Illinois so Corrupt?” Chicago Mag feature tackles this question, offering up some historical insight and a range of perspectives.
