Chicago Daily Observer

The audit comes in response to a Chicago Sun-Times report on highway Supt. Rupert Graham’s order requiring road repair crews to observe “no-drive” days twice a month to save fuel.

The policy calls for road repairers, who make about $62,000 a year, to spend every other Wednesday doing odd jobs at district garages.

Breaking news in Lincoln Square:

Bowing to pressure following a community protest and the Sun-Times coverage of his redevelopment plans for the Lincoln Square business district, Alderman Gene Schulter (47th Ward) pulled an ordinance that would have allowed the city to use its eminent domain powers to gobble up the 4800 block of Western.