“The prevailing attitude among black people in Chicago is that, to move up, you’ve got to move away.”

Comment: Miller apparently took a smart, careful look at the redactions in the warrant to come to that conclusion, which confirms what he is no doubt hearing on the grapevine, which is consistent with what we, too, hear.

A venture capitalist who bankrolled City Hall deals that secretly benefited Patrick Daley while his father Richard M. Daley was mayor has agreed to a court settlement that will see him repay less than 10% of the $290,596 he owes the U.S. Small Business Administration.

After eight years of legal wrangling, the SBA has given up on trying to collect the money from Patrick Daley’s friend Joseph M. McInerney, whose firm Cardinal Growth was seized by the federal agency eight years ago.

For some reason, the same towns have been having the same problems for decades, despite federal investigations that try to throw the bums out.

“The Chicago Teachers Union President is the only person we contacted who failed to respond to our inquiries. We made multiple attempts to contact him by phone, by email, and through his assistant and office, during both our preliminary and follow-up evaluations,” Hickey wrote in a footnote to her 134-page report.

Prosecutors have said Boone-Doty, Morgan, and a third man — Kevin Edwards — plotted to kill Tyshawn because his father was a member of a rival gang they suspected of killing Morgan’s brother weeks earlier.