- Preckwinkle, Part 2. The Trib says she is freezing “nonessential” spending on questionable contracts and programs until new budget is adopted in February. Thumbs up from the BGA.
- Food fight. Top Chicago restaurants are fighting Ald. Waguespack’s plan to increase culinary options by licensing mobile food trucks with cooking facilities. The Sun-Times says that Keefer’s and other eateries say the economy’s eating away enough of their profits without new competition.
- Chi-town casino? The State Journal-Register editorializes against massive gaming expansion plan with one exception: A Chicago casino to attract tourist dollars.
- Honorable discharge. Evanston Township High School District 202 resolves a decades-old controversy by voting to eliminate freshman honors class in English. The Trib reports that too few minority students tested high enough to meet the entrance requirements for the course, sparking an endless debate over whether “tracking” is right or wrong.
