(IL) Chicago Tribune – Mayor Richard Daley’s top budget aide tried Wednesday to convince the City Council that the wheels aren’t falling off the city’s blue-cart recycling program, even as he acknowledged there would be no major expansion of the program to most of the city for at least another year.

There’s no new funding for blue carts in Daley’s proposed 2010 spending plan that freezes the Streets and Sanitation budget. As a result, some households will likely see their recycling picked up less frequently, city Budget Director Eugene Munin said on the first day of budget hearings. More