Were addicts given $5 for school votes?

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

A group of "addicts, users and alcoholics" living at a South Loop flophouse were offered $5 each in April to walk over to a nearby school and vote in its local school council election, one of the residents said on videotape Friday.

"Everybody started putting on their clothes and going out the door" after a man went floor-to-floor at the New Ritz Hotel with the vote-buying offer, Renee Day said by videotape during a hearing contesting the election of two LSC candidates.

The vote-buying allegations are a first in LSC elections here, said Malon Edwards, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman.

In fact, Edwards said, CPS lawyers aren't even sure that LSC vote-buying is a crime because no mention of it is made in the Illinois school code.

Now that's the Chicago Way.