Investment Bankers Rule At Rahm S City Hall

You’ll have to forgive me for feeling a little paranoid these days, as I recently saw Kill the Messenger, a great new movie starring Jeremy Renner.

But while many of us have been consumed by that mess, there’s been another spooky development at City Hall: a switcheroo in the city treasurer’s office, where one investment banker is about to be replaced by another.

This led to one of the great exchanges of my journalistic career, when, back in 2002, I was granted an audience with his Rahmship while he was running for Congress.

If Rahm and Bruce team up to outsource the Chicago Public Schools to a GTCR subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Last year, Mayor Emanuel appointed Dan Widawsky, a former managing director at Citadel, as the city’s comptroller.

In the most recent development at City Hall, Mayor Emanuel has nominated Kurt Summers to replace treasurer Stephanie Neely, who’s voluntarily stepping down.