I wanted to find my way to the famous pizzerias of Naples.  But with two kids and luggage in tow, it was too daunting.   If only I’d known about this service I might have done it:

“It seemed like a great idea at the time: hire ex-convicts to escort tourists through seedy Neapolitan streets. Who better to explain to the uninitiated the potential dangers lying in wait?

But after less than a month, the experiment has already run into trouble. The former convicts recently staged a wildcat strike after one worker was taken to police headquarters over a verbal altercation with a traffic officer.

The argument was about a fine issued the day before to a worker with the group, who had crossed the street just a few steps from a crosswalk. “The first jaywalking fine issued in Naples in 200 years,” Corrado Gabriele, the program’s main institutional sponsor, said dryly.”

We should replicate this program in Chicago.