Spiraling down, is the city headed for the same fate as Detroit?

City by the numbers: Cash cushion plummets, debt triples, arrests drop, water use rises -...

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed the books on 2012 with $33.4 million in unallocated cash on hand — down from $167 million the year before — while adding to the mountain of debt piled on Chicago taxpayers, year-end audits show. Last week, Moody