Schools closed early, flights canceled over freezing rain, snow Tuesday

Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown was kicked off the mayoral ballot Tuesday, bringing the field of mayoral contenders to 14.

“We are supporting Ed Burke because he has supported us and because we, unlike the Tribune and Sun Times, believe a man is presumed innocent until he is proven guilty,” Martin Preib, the FOP’s second vice-president, wrote in a statement to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Board documents from Chico’s days appear to back his claim that property taxes and spending were cut under his watch. But those same documents also make clear that savings passed on to individual taxpayers from his property tax cuts were underwhelming and set in motion before Chico took over.

Meanwhile, another missed paycheck looms for hundreds of thousands of federal workers on day 32 of the partial government shutdown.