Chicago City Workers Who Owe Money

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Ten years after City Clerk Jim Laski blew the lid off the City Hall scofflaw scandal, government employees still owe $1.4 million in overdue parking tickets and water bills.

The Daley administration prefers to look at the glass as half full.

Thanks to 5,300 wage garnishments in the past year and an improved computer tracking system, employee debt is down from an all-time high of $8.5 million in 1996. And it's down by 65 percent since last year, when the combined amount owed by city employees and their counterparts at the Board of Education, CTA, CHA and City Colleges approached $4 million.

City Hall scofflaw scandal

Chicago Public School employees still lead the scofflaw parade with $675,375 in overdue parking tickets and $107,611 in unpaid water bills. They're followed by CTA employees, who have piled up $218,423 in unpaid parking tickets and $32,171 in overdue water bills. City employees still owe $183,282 and $34,160.

Don't the Chicago Public School employees care about the children?