- Flood of farewell $$$. Dane Placko of Fox Chicago News reports the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District paid out $863,000 in severance to top-level employes who retired in December to beat a January change in severance eligibility. That change is being challenged in court by employees who are still at the MWRD.
- Taxpayer turmoil. “Taxpayers are outraged,” says Phil Kadner–counting himself among the incensed–in his Southtown Star column on angry reaction to the Springfield tax hike.
- Charter chit-chat. The Trib reports the Chicago Board of Education is considering requests for seven new charter schools in the city.
