* Huberman to leave as CPS boss before May

All this threatens to occur over a critical set of months, when CPS traditionally devises its budget, prepares for state tests and decides which schools to close. It must tackle the tasks with an administrative staff decimated by budget cuts, teachers left disgruntled by cost-saving layoffs and the specter of even worse budget woes next school year.

* Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman Not Leaving Post Soon

He said he would likely stay through January, when a new school year begins for some CPS students. He said any time there is a transition in leadership, there is some consideration of who else will leave, but speculation he will leave soon is untrue.

* Schools chief Huberman denies report of early departure

* Huberman on CPS post: ‘Nothing imminent’

* Chicago Public Schools Chief ‘Nervous’ About Safety at Whittier

* CPS: Rehiring Tenured Teachers Could Cost Millions

* Chicago Public Schools Plan to Appeal Ruling on Layoffs

* Daley touts $34 million to raise pay for best teachers

* After blaming ‘the process,’ Stroger fires arrested aide

* Mayor Daley moves to fix a part of city’s water-billing mess

* Cook Board rejects full sales-tax rollback

Calling threats of a $300 million deficit in the upcoming 2011 budget a “fallacy and “scare tactics, Riverside Republican Commissioner Tony Peraica called for the full rollback Tuesday of the sales tax, which the county board reduced by half this summer.

* One Chicago Neighborhood Named Most Dangerous in the Country

A real estate advising company says a neighborhood bordered by Damen and Western Avenues on the east and west and Kinzie Street and Washington Boulevard to the north and south has the highest predicted rates of violent crime in the nation.

* America’s 25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods

* Medicare drug costs up 10%

* CTA might rename stop for Mayor Washington

* Mount Prospect issues 35 layoff notices

* U-46 taps analyst for finance post

* Kaneland school board names trustee

* Kane prosecutor to leave for Kendall

* Naperville OKs plan to buy DuPage Children’s Museum building

* U. of I. faculty members, students may ask trustees to reconsider William Ayers

* Carbondale City Councilman Lance Jack resigns, wins liquor license