Editorial: Bill Daley, to build Chicago

There's the Chicago you know, a sharp-elbowed town with its aspirations, its inequities, its mounting challenges. And there's the better Chicago you envision - the city that doesn't crackle with gunfire, that pays its debts without forever raising taxes, that gives its every schoolchild a fighting chance at a better life.

Now come with us to yet another Chicago, the one its citizens will shape with their votes. That is, come four fleeting but rugged years forward to 2023. Describe that Chicago.

Will its schools still be shedding children by the thousands every year?

Will its young people who do collect diplomas have career prospects brighter than the corner streetlights where, today, many of them while away early