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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Last night's forum in Chicago

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Last night's forum in Chicago

Last night's forum in Chicago

If last night's forum at UIC is any indication, mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel won't have much of a honeymoon, especially when it comes to his role as boss of the public schools. Emanuel's school plan, which sounds a lot like Mayor Daley's and the Civic Committee's Renaissance 2010, was under assault by last night's panel discussion before an appreciative, standing-room-only crowd.

The panel was organized in response to