Chicago to pull workers from Maggie Daley charity : Two public employees had been assigned to After School Matters

The Chicago Tribune reports:

The City Hall practice of assigning public employees to work for the clouted After School Matters organization will end in January, according to the city's cultural affairs office.

A Tribune review found two salaried city workers handling duties related to fundraising for the charity founded by Maggie Daley, the late wife of former Mayor Richard Daley.

Responding to inquiries from the paper about the status of the employees in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2012 budget, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events said the employees would be recalled to city duties beginning Jan. 1.

The situation was highlighted earlier this year in a report from Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson on After School Matters that focused on donations to the organization from developers who received city taxpayer subsidies. One of the people interviewed by investigators was a cultural affairs worker who Ferguson said was "providing management and oversight for all grant writing and fundraising activities for After School Matters."

Rahm's wife sits on the board. Who could forget that Obama gave this charity $3 million in "stimulus" money?