Outgoing Chicago Inspector General Deborah Witzburg urged the City Council Wednesday to flex its muscle in a way that it never has: by establishing rules to go after bad behavior by Council members.

Witzburg wants the Rules Committee to fill the “wide gap” between criminal and ethics code violations that her office is empowered to investigate — and “conduct unbecoming” by Council members. Those alderpersons, Witzburg says, “reflect poorly on the body as a whole and further erode public trust in government.”

In recent years, several alderpersons have appeared to cross that line without punishment or consequence.

Mayor Brandon Johnson cast the tie-breaking vote to rescue his then-floor leader and Zoning Committee Chair Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) from censure after Ramirez-Rosa was accused

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