Great summary of the key numbers in the proposal.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to slap a 29.5 percent tax on water and sewer bills to save the largest of Chicago’s four city employee pension funds survived an early test vote Thursday, but it wasn’t easy or pretty. Comment: Down the bottomless pit. The crisis will worsen nevertheless.

32% approval rating for Rahm. On the new water and sewer tax,he poll says 17.2% approve and 74.7% disapprove and 8.1% are dizzy with indecision.

A former parking executive’s “bonehead decision” to sell a $22 million Chicago parking meter contract for a $90,000 bribe has landed him a six-month prison sentence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Last month, the University of Chicago appeared to pick sides in the latest iteration of America’s culture wars. But it was really announcing just how silly those culture wars are — and how to get past them. Aspirations matter — and the University of Chicago has the right aspiration Comment: This is the best article yet on that U of C welcoming letter for students.

Since 2001, Chicago has experienced 7,916 murders (as of September 06, 2016). The number of Americans killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was 2,384 and 4,504 respectively since 2001.

Cars.com, which provides reviews of new vehicles and comparisons of competing models, was part of Classified Ventures, a joint venture of Gannett, Tribune and three other newspaper publishers, until two years ago when Gannett bought out its partners for $1.8 billion.

In a continuing investigation, NBC Investigates reveals that Chicago’s vacant school buildings remain unsold and unused – and now often vandalized as well.

Chicago’s expertise treating gunshot victims masks the real numbers.