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** FILE ** This Monday, April 7, 2014, photo provided by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shows two World War I artillery shells discovered by baggage screeners in checked luggage that arrived on a flight from London at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. (AP Photo/Transportation Security Administration)

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FILE - In this June 6, 2012 file photo Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, left, registers for her ballot during a strike authorization vote at a high school in Chicago. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel last week announced an agreement with several unions to help bail out the nation’s worst-funded city pension systems, a festering problem inherited from his predecessor, Richard M. Daley. Emanuel said the deal, which would slice Chicago’s nearly $20 billion shortfall in half by cutting benefits and raising property taxes, would keep the funds from insolvency and avoid massive cuts in services and a record tax hike. Among its opponents is Lewis who calls the pension plan “criminal” and “just awful,” saying it will hit school employees _ who don’t receive Social Security and are predominantly women of color _ with both a loss of benefits and, for those who own homes, a property tax increase they can’t afford to pay. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)

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FILE - In this April 7, 2011 file photo, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, left, and Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel share a moment at a Chicago White Sox game at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago. Emanuel, the hard-charging mayor is intent on fixing what ails the nation’s third-largest city. Emanuel once nicknamed “Rahmbo” for his fierce political maneuvering, last week announced an agreement with several unions to help bail out the nation’s worst-funded city pension systems, a festering problem he inherited from Daley. Emanuel said the deal, which would slice Chicago’s nearly $20 billion shortfall in half by cutting benefits and raising property taxes, would keep the funds from insolvency and avoid massive cuts in services and a record tax hike. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

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FILE - In this March, 6, 2014 file photo Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel left, listens while Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti right, looks on during a panel discussion about the issues facing the nation's big cities at the University of Chicago, in Chicago. Emanuel, the hard-charging mayor is intent on fixing what ails the nation’s third-largest city, no matter whom he ticks off in the process. The man once nicknamed “Rahmbo” for his fierce political maneuvering, last week announced an agreement with several unions to help bail out the nation’s worst-funded city pension systems, a festering problem inherited from his predecessor, Richard M. Daley. Emanuel said the deal, which would slice Chicago’s nearly $20 billion shortfall in half by cutting benefits and raising property taxes, would keep the funds from insolvency and avoid massive cuts in services and a record tax hike. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty,File)

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In this Wednesday, March, 26, 2014 photo, Michael Clark, 22, left, and Douglas Sawyer, 23, right, both from Chicago rent a 2013 Dodge Viper at the Enterprise Exotic Car Collection showroom near Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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In this Wednesday, March, 26, 2014 photo, Douglas Sawyer, 23, right, and Michael Clark, 22, left, both from Chicago rent a 2013 Dodge Viper at the Enterprise Exotic Car Collection showroom near Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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FILE - In this March 24, 2014 file photo, a Chicago Transit Authority train car rests on an escalator at the O'Hare International Airport station after it derailed in Chicago. More than 30 people were injured. A preliminary report released Monday, April 7, 2014, by the National Transportation Safety Board says there wasn’t enough distance between an automatic emergency braking mechanism and the end of a train track at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. (AP Photo/NBC Chicago, Kenneth Webster, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

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Eddie Palacios, an off-duty employee from the Transport Security Administration, jumped onto the tracks to stop an oncoming commuter train after a woman had fallen at Chicago's Avenue Blue Line station. (DNAInfo)

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In this Friday, March 21, 2014 photo, Cody Lewis, right, jokes with his sister, Mackenzie, as she surfs the Internet at their suburban Chicago home in Aurora, Ill. Lewis was consumed by heroin. Every day was the same: Get up sick if he hadn't used in 12 hours. Figure out how to get money. Then drive 35 miles from his suburban home to Chicago to score. "My whole existence," he says, "was just finding ways to get high." (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)