Politics

Comptroller Amer Ahmad

WTTW News | July 11, 2011, 7:00 pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is cutting up Chicago's credit cards. Comptroller Amer Ahmad tells us about the city's latest cost-cutting and scandal-reducing measures.

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