Aldermen use expense accounts to pay ex-Park District official who resigned amid lifeguard sexual abuse scandal – Chicago Tribune/MSN

Alonzo Williams, who was asked to resign and banned from working for the Park District again,  was paid as an independent contractor for various consulting jobs by four City Council members: former Ald. Roderick Sawyer and current Aldermen Michelle Harris, David Moore, and Jason Ervin. The payments came from little-known aldermanic expense allowances, which provide each of the city’s 50 council members $122,000 annually to spend on almost anything they want with little oversight.