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- The big boys let Mayor Rahm sit at the grown-ups table.
Just in case anyone forgot who really runs things in this town, the Sun-Times appeared on my front porch on Wednesday—hand delivered, as always—with a picture of a recent gathering at Gibsons steakhouse.
I can only imagine the table talk as the night wore on and the red wine flowed. But if Mayor Emanuel’s recent behavior is any indication, I wouldn’t be surprised if Mayor Daley gave him a tip or two about how to run Chicago.
All in the name of reform.
He’s obligating those funds to projects that people will have a harder time objecting to—i.e., the construction of new schools. As opposed to obligating them to things that everyone should be protesting, like the construction of a Marriott Hotel and DePaul basketball arena.
And so it was that yesterday he held a press conference to announce he was spending $60 million in TIF funds to build the Barack Obama College Preparatory High School near Halsted and Division on the near-north side where the Cabrini-Green complex used to be. The school’s scheduled to open in 2017.
And if we are going to build new schools, why continue to build them on the north side?
