Chicago will cut back on snowplowing because of budget woes:

"Mayor Richard M. Daley said Tuesday that city crews will cut back on plowing side streets this winter in an effort to save money. The mayor said the city will only plow side streets during weekday union business hours this winter, rather than during overtime hours."

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/snow.re....2.877966.html

And we may have 5 inches of snow tonight.

It's not like maintaining streets you can drive on and street parking places you can get out of and hospitals you can access is, you know, a basic function of a city government or anything. Maybe the mayor could raise cash by firing some of those thousands of city employees who don't seem to produce very much. Of course, when you are laying off cops while the murder rate soars, you've already started showing pretty bad management skills

I wonder if Jane Byrne will run for mayor again after this decision backfires on Daley the way it did on Bilandic.