I confess that somehow I missed the story of the miraculous turnaround in the city government of Chicago. Apparently the severe budget deficits, including the onerous pension burden, have been erased. The murder epdemic on the Southside has een ended. And Chicago’s public schools, considered some of the worst in the nation, have been radically improved to the point that one thousand non-English-speaking, impoverished, and i9n many cases brutalized children from Central America are being welcomed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Juan Perez, Jr. of the Chicago Tribune reports: Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration is set to aggressively expand the amount of shelter available to children apprehended at the southern U.S. border, with plans to house as many as 1,000 additional young immigrants in Chicago by the end of this year. The mayor's office also plans to tap the city's legal community to build what it described as a "broad-based pro bono campaign" to... (Read Full Post)