Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday defended his decision to cut in half — but still retain — the police bodyguard detail that accompanied former Mayor Richard M. Daley and his wife, Maggie, into retirement.
Emanuel noted that he’s cutting the detail from six active officers to three and that two of those officers would be on call to take Maggie Daley to and from the hospital and to doctors visits.
Maggie Daley has suffered a series of recent setbacks in her nearly 10-year battle against metastatic breast cancer.
“While we are a city of big shoulders, we’re also a city of big hearts,” Emanuel told reporters at an unrelated news conference.
We had to take Grandma to the doctor the other day. We hired a Medi-car to do it. She worked for the city for many years, was actually on the payroll. Raised 5 kids, buried a husband, beat cancer once already. Where's her car and driver?