No one else on the City Council seems to be laughing these days.
DALEY NEWS
No word on how Mayor Daley is spending his holiday weekend. So I’m going to assume it involves large amounts of alcohol and some high-grade, quasi-legal explosives purchased out of state.
DALEY CHATTER
The mayor closed on the city’s purchase of Michael Reese Hospital this week — the future site of an Olympic Village, should, god-willing, we get the Olympics. And after two weeks of Olympic glory, the buildings will be turned over to a developer and turned into condos. That’s the plan, at least. A $1.1 billion plan. And we all know how well plans get executed when City Hall is involved.
With all the hoopla about the small City Council revolt brewing over the Olympics, it’s easy to forget that the games aren’t Daley’s only headache these days. The mayor continues to deal with aldermanic outrage over the parking meter fiasco. The council had a hearing on the deal yesterday and, boy, were they shooting off righteous indignation like Fourth-of-July bottle rockets.
The parking meter deal hit tragically close to home for Ald. Leslie Hairston after a meter charged her $32.50 for overnight parking, but she only wanted to park for two hours. So remember folks: though you might be getting screwed at the meter, so are your aldermen.
Of course we can’t really blame aldermen for their role in passing the deal. I mean they are just aldermen, you can’t expect them to actually read the legislation they’re voting on. Just ask Ald. Dick Mell, who said, "How many of us read the stuff we do get, OK?. I try to. I try to. I try to. But being realistic, being realistic, it's like getting your insurance policy. It's small print, OK?" Someone remind the city’s printing office to run off a copy of the large print edition for Alderman Mell, will ya? We don’t want to strain the man’s vision.
That’s all, folks. Have a great holiday weekend!
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