- Al Podgorski/Sun-Times Media
- Mayor Rahm at this morning’s City Council special meeting
Like a Roman emperor who had just conquered the world, Mayor Rahm strode before the City Council this morning for his annual budget address—all he needed was a toga.
On the front page of the Sun-Times was a big, color picture of discarded “Karen Lewis for Mayor” buttons. The headline read: “What now? Lewis leaves a would-be movement without a standard-bearer.”
I guess we can figure out who the mayor really backs in Rauner’s run against Governor Pat Quinn.
“Last week I told my wife, ‘If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef.’ She said, ‘If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffeur.’”
“They were amused and contemptuous of Jane Byrne’s lonely race against the power of the Machine,” the Grangers wrote. “Alderman Eddie Burke [yes, that alderman Burke] told his captains that Jane reminded him of his Aunt Bessie, always fussing . . . When they met together with their shiny suits and big cigars, they made jokes about the ‘menopausal bitch’ who was going through her change of life in public.”
