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Ethics Board OKs Legality Of Funding For Emanuel's Trip To Rome

When a city-funded non-profit sent Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, his wife, and an entourage on a trip to Rome last fall, it didn’t violate the city’s ethics ordinance. But it didn’t look great. That’s how the city ethics board saw things, in an opinion that got a public airing this week. WBEZ’s Dan Weissmann reports.

When a city-funded non-profit sent Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, his wife, and an entourage on a trip to Rome last fall, it didn’t violate the city’s ethics ordinance. But it didn’t look great. That’s how the city ethics board saw things, in an opinion that got a public airing this week. WBEZ’s Dan Weissmann reports.

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