Editorial, includes “The mayor’s truth-telling is rarely heard from politicians in Illinois. But even when we’ve heard it before we haven’t seen the follow-up. That’s because political pressure nearly always outmuscles financial rectitude. … We remember Rahm Emanuel’s 2011 inauguration speech, when he pledged to ask four questions about everything City Hall does with its dollars: Do we need it? Is it worth it? Can we afford it? Is there a better deal? What a superb template for changing the way a city operates. Yet Emanuel’s own budgets during his eight years in office increased spending, and when Lightfoot took over after him, she inherited a $838 million budget gap.”