tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post1983008717858468199..comments2024-03-28T06:04:41.030-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Time to embrace ‘Our Lori’Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-14746510435237010872022-05-07T08:06:25.043-05:002022-05-07T08:06:25.043-05:00No, I wish Vallas had made the runoff.No, I wish Vallas had made the runoff.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-16915023013665450092022-05-06T16:58:29.252-05:002022-05-06T16:58:29.252-05:00I lived through the reign of Daley the Elder. I wa...I lived through the reign of Daley the Elder. I was not quite eight when he was elected, and I was 29 when he died. That, of course, means I lived through '68. I eagerly and willingly participated in the Battle of Chicago, so don't get me started on him. Chicago was the City That Worked under Richard I...unless you were brown or black. Or progressive.<br /><br />Bilandic was a sad sack and a puppet, Janie was a joke, and Harold...well, he coulda been somebody. He coulda been around for years...but while the people embraced him, he embraced plate after plate of barbecued ribs...until he finally keeled over and died. Sawyer was a footnote. I emigrated to now-red (deep red) Ahia in the early years of Richard II, but only after having voted for him.<br /><br />And what the hey...I lived long enough to see a Jewish mayor in Chicago...something that outspoken anti-Semitic Irishman and ex-cop, Eddie Burke, predicted would never, ever happen. I lived in Chicagoland, as the Trib used to call it, for 36 years. So I can safely say...and from personal experience...that Chicago's Irish and Chicago's Jews have never been close friends. We're not like New Yorkers..too much shepherd's pie here to be fought-over.<br /><br />I've.been gone for thirty years now...so I really can't say much about the shape Chicago is in now...or about Lori Lightfoot. Black, female, and gay...that's all I know about her...and that she got 73% of the vote. Otherwise, she is an enigma to me. A mystery. A question mark. <br /><br />I do miss many things about the city of my birth, but not everything. To paraphrase Neil Diamond yet again: Cleveland's fine, but it ain't home...Chicago's home, but it ain't mine no more. And too much of what was my Chicago is now long gone.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-496197770649668132022-05-06T16:55:49.009-05:002022-05-06T16:55:49.009-05:00So, Clark St., does that mean that you wish you...So, Clark St., does that mean that you wish you'd voted for the *other* candidate in the mayoral election, the one you liked to call Taxwinkle, if I recall?Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-48080788212443627792022-05-06T16:53:41.570-05:002022-05-06T16:53:41.570-05:00This column offers a nice, friendly perspective, b...This column offers a nice, friendly perspective, but as a disappointed Lightfoot voter, 3 years seems like a pretty generous amount of time to wait for her to grow into the job. If she could stick her foot in her mouth every *other* time, instead of every time, that might be a start! (I exaggerate, of course, but she does seem like her own worst enemy.)<br /><br />By no means does the Bean, swell as it is, mean "all is forgiven" when it comes to Daley II. Why I just paid $9.50 to a private company in order to park on a Chicago street today... Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-85543402329965161132022-05-06T15:34:46.169-05:002022-05-06T15:34:46.169-05:00I voted for her & it was a total mistake!
She ...I voted for her & it was a total mistake!<br />She has no idea what to do, hired an incompetent as police chief, solely because he's black, who has proven to be totally out of his depth here, as crime is out of control, especially downtown & on the L.<br />She gets into stupid idiotic fights with everyone.<br />She just chose the second worst place for the casino, plus there's no explanation about what will happen to the Trib printing plant, which also prints the Sun-Times, NY Times & Wall St. Journal. Previous articles have said the Trib has a lease until next year with the option for a ten year renewal, so how does this casino abrogate that lease & option? Only the One Central foolishness was worse!Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.com