In Chicago, the city council is now drifting toward bankruptcy like a ship of fools. For those of us who love our home city, it is a painful thing to watch. Despite a history of corruption under the Daley machine, the city was always a pro-growth town that attracted industries. It is now following Detroit’s path toward insolvency as politicians kick the debt can down the road for someone else to pay.

The suit, filed in U.S. district court in Chicago, among other things called the administration’s action “arbitrary and capricious” in violation of a federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act. It said the administration’s purported justification of the freeze – to ensure nondiscrimination in federal transportation funding programs – “is pretextual, and the freeze was instead based on political retaliation.”

Hawthorne Race Course officials expressed optimism to Illinois Racing Board (IRB) officials on Wednesday that they can conduct thoroughbred racing at their south Chicago suburban track this year.