The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Chicago's city seal says, “Urbs in Horto.” It means “City in a Garden.”
It might not say that for long if Mayor Daley has his way. How do the latin words,
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After launching a study of youth violence by the University of Chicago, Daley said today he would like to change the city's motto.
“I'm passionate about children. We put too many other things above our children. Children, to me, should be what we stand for here in the city of Chicago,” the mayor said.
“We’re the city of flowers. We’re the city of trees and gardens and all that. I’d like to maybe change that motto to, ‘City of Children.’ I really believe that.”
The mayor said it with a straight face. He wasn't kidding. But, it’s not clear whether he planned to pursue the costly idea of changing the city seal -- or whether he was saying it to underscore the fact that educating children and keeping them safe are his No. 1 priority.
It seems Chicago's no place to raise children.
CBS TV Chicago reports:
Half-empty schools are "unacceptable" because they don't serve their students or the communities they're supposed to anchor, Mayor Richard M. Daley said Thursday, setting the stage for the biggest wave of school closings in decades.
Officials contend 147 of 417 neighborhood elementary schools are from half to more than two-thirds empty because enrollment has declined by 41,000 students in the last seven years. A tentative CPS plan calls for up to 50 under-used schools to close, consolidate with other schools or phase out over the next five years.
I guess the high tax life style tends to be anti-children.
