Preckwinkle’s response: Board president spokeswoman Becky Schlikerman issued a statement that said, in part, “It’s insulting for anyone to suggest that President Preckwinkle, the first African-American woman elected to this office, would be entitled to less protection than the men across the hall and the men who have previously held this office.” That’s a reference to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose fifth-floor office is just down the hall from her own in the city-county building downtown. Read the full story, including Emanuel’s policy, here.