City council will vote to pass the "Infrastructure Trust" while demonstrating their skill at presenting false choices to taxpayers. Their argument is "we must pass this now" because the State and Feds won't give us money they don't have.
Adroitly, the supporters sidestep the possibility that if they vote it down the Mayor will be forced to revise the proposal.
They also sidestep the issue of the "private investors". These wouldn't happen to be the same investors that led folks down the garden path about collateralized debt obligations would they?
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As a nod to the great Chicago author Nelson Algren this blog is an attempt to consolidate in one locale the banality and outrageousness of corruption in the great city of Chicago. Many a neighbor has suffered harm and indignity at the hands of this corruption. Chicago is perhaps the last city in the nation to still have a vital if not festering political machine. It happens this machine is part of the Democratic Party. Make no mistake corruption is not unique to Democrats.
News from beyond the City on the Make
Another Book, Another Chicago
- A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansbury
- Boss - Mike Royko
- Bridges of Memory, Volumes I &II - Timuel D. Black Jr.
- Challenging the Daley Machine - Leon M. Despres
- Chicago, City on the Make - Nelson Algren
- Don't Make No Waves, Don't Back No Losers - Milton Rakove
- Fire on the Prarie: Chicago's Harold Washington And The Politics Of Race - Gary Rivlin
- Native Son - Richard Wright
- The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
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About Me
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- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- I'm your neighbor and I grew up in Chicago with a healthy distaste for corruption.
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