Chicago aldermen with their noses out of joint Friday demanded to know why they are searched along with the masses at the city's central headquarters for administrative hearings.
Scott Bruner, director of Administrative Hearings --the department Chicagoans love to hate -- was put through the wringer again during City Council budget hearings, but for different reasons.
Normally, Bruner gets pummeled for presiding over a "kangaroo court" of rude, cavalier and predominantly white hearing officers who don't give the accused a fair shake, critics say.
This time, he was ambushed by aldermen, some of them attorneys, who show up at 400 W. Superior and are searched and put through metal detectors like everyone else.
When the politicians had rendered Detroit largely uninhabitable, most of the residents left. I keep waiting for Chicago to go the same way. So far nothing, and I admit I don't understand it. But it's nice to get a glimpse of the minor-league Masters chewing on one another, once in a while.
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