New Session at City Hall
Oooh! Nine new faces on the floor of Chicago’s City Hall - I smell hazing!
The Tribune wrote up Ten Things You Might Not Know About City Hall in honor of the new recruits (or maybe in honor of one of those who won’t be there tomorrow). Here’s my favorite:
Aldermen are allowed to carry concealed handguns and act as “conservators of the peace” under an 1872 state law, even though handgun possession is illegal in Chicago. In 1991, Ald. Dorothy Tillman waved a nickel-plated, .38-caliber snub-nosed revolver at a raucous community meeting at Kennedy-King College on the South Side, according to witnesses. No one was hurt, and Tillman, who lost her re-election bid this spring, still refuses to discuss the incident. Ballard Powell, a supervisor at the Joliet Correctional Center who was at the meeting, told the Tribune at the time: “It’s safer walking through a maximum-security prison with your eyes closed … than being in a room with a wild alderman.”
Oh Chicago. How we smirk at your continuing corruption and ridiculousness.
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