Aldermen Attendance Rank / Tim Anderson Is Back / $87 Million Error

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• How often does your alderman show up to City Council meetings? The lowest attendance score — 54% — belonged to Ald. George Cardenas, 12th Ward, who represents parts of McKinley Park and Little Village and has served on the City Council since 2003. (WBEZ)
• Crime on the CTA keeps climbing. Two people were violently attacked over the weekend. (CBS2)
• A "coding error" sent $87 million to Chicago Public Schools that was meant for other school districts around Illinois. Now, state officials want CPS to pay back the funding windfall received by mistake. (Pantagraph)
• White Sox star Tim Anderson was back in the lineup Sunday after serving a two-game suspension. He got three hits and scored twice in the Sox 10-1 trouncing of the Tigers. Anderson "is the most lit-up, energized player I’ve ever watched," Sox manager Tony La Russa said. (MLB.com)

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