Alderman Edward Burke introduced a laudatory death resolution for a former Illinois state treasurer who was convicted of bank fraud for a multimillion dollar check-kiting scheme. No one noticed. It passed.
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That is not, however, the way most people would describe avoiding prison due to poor health.
Alderman Burton Natarus is rather defensive about his crusade to purge dog waste from Chicago. This is how he introduced an ordinance to raise the maximum fine for failing to clean up after dogs from $25 to $500: “I am not here today to cause the press to giggle and laugh at the ordinance I’m introducing! But I know the press will giggle and laugh!”
“All right. Congratulations to the city clerk. Alderman Buchanan?” said Alderman Lorraine Dixon, presiding for the absent Mayor Daley.
“No, what it means is Alderman Buchanan is getting funnier by the minute,” said Natarus.
