There were a number of Chicago City Council committee meetings today in order to advance matters for Wednesday’s full council session. One committee that did not meet and has, in fact, only met once since the start of 2012 is the Workforce Development and Audit Committee, chaired by Ald. Patrick O’Connor (40th), Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s council floor leader.
That the workforce committee is missing in action means that Ald. Jason Ervin’s (28th) ordinance to guarantee the city’s 2,400 airport workers a “living wage” hasn’t moved since it was referred to the committee last October – even as the majority of airport concession workers head into contract negotiations this summer. Read more »
Thousands of 
More than 2,000 NATO and anti-war protestors gathered in Grant Park
Sunday before they took to the streets and descended on McCormick Place
where world leaders are meeting for the summit.
The We Are One coalition of unions is calling for a fair solution to the state's pension problem, "a crisis politicians themselves caused by failing for years to pay their share to public retirement systems," according to the group. 
The eyes of the world will be on Chicago this weekend as about 2,000
journalists from around the nation and the globe are headed to the Windy
City to cover this weekend’s NATO summit.
