Mayor Rahm Emanuel will propose spending an additional $500,000 for new garbage carts to combat the city’s rat problem when he lays out his 2018 budget, his administration said Friday.

The mayor also will propose adding five new teams to the Department of Streets and Sanitation’s year-old Bureau of Rodent Control. The addition would push the total number of rat-fighting crews in the city to 30 starting next year.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s 2018 budget plan will include $24 million in new money for police training changes and community policing expansions, an amount the administration calls a “down payment” on making reforms at the Chicago Police Department called for in a scathing federal report.

The mayor’s administration, though, did not say Friday where the new money will come from, except to say it will be included in the mayor’s overall spending package.

The documentary detailing Rita Crundwell’s $53.7 million embezzlement scheme is coming back to Dixon, and it’s open to the public.

“All the Queen’s Horses,” a 71-minute film about Dixon’s former comptroller, whose theft spanning two decades has been called the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history, will be shown Oct. 28 and 29 at the Historic Dixon Theatre.

A four-time Illinois Legislator of the Year is free on $1,500 bail following a recent shoplifting arrest, authorities said.

Former Republican representative Sandra Pihos, of the 500 block of Williamsburgh Road in Glen Ellyn, is charged with retail theft.

Peoria County Board members formally received and began to review their proposed 2018 budget on Thursday evening, a spending plan that keeps taxes level and contains a small surplus.

The proposal is part of a multi-year effort to rebuild reserves in the county’s main general fund account, and to begin to level off the difference between natural growth in revenues, some 1 percent a year, and expenses that are increasing at some 2.5 percent a year.