An important announcement, a search for the Mayor and some juicy political gossip
SPECIAL EDITOR'S NOTE: A moment of your attention please, dear readers. We plan to begin profiling one Daley fan and one Daley hater each week and in order to do a bang up job, we need your help. Since we'd love to feature anyone from the average Chicago citizen to a possible elected official here and there, we need your suggestions. Know anyone who would like to be featured? Shoot us their details, contact information and a little backstory to dailydaley@gmail.com and we'll take it from there. We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming...
DALEY NEWS
Still at an unfortunate loss for how the Mayor officially spends his days, we turn to less reliable, but more entertaining sources. For instance, while it tells us nothing worthwhile about His Honor's political or policy priorities, we're somewhat certain that he lunched at O'Brien's today and sat near a man with a questionable sense of humor.
On second thought, maybe there is some value in this "news." O'Briens is on the Riverwalk and this allows us a moment to reflect on that over budget, behind schedule, TIF-funded boondoggle, er, civic improvement.
Not entirely unrelated perhaps, we'd love to know what prompted this outburst.
DALEY CHATTER
In case you'd like to know which Aldermen are supporting limiting Chicago taxpayers' exposure to possible Olympic cost overruns, here's a complete list. For those keeping score at home, that's just 12 out of 50 Aldermen that think a limit should be placed on how much we'll have to possibly pony up. Don't see your Alderman on the list? Why not give him or her a ring and ask why? Don't know who your Alderman is? We've got you covered.
Not normally inclined to take seriously anything that appears in Michael Sneed's column (for many reasons such as this), we'll go ahead and mention the rumors swirling around that Mayor Daley will not be endorsing Todd Stroger in his eventual re-election bid for Cook County Board President. WBEZ has some more color for us here.
Finally, one of our fellow Chicagoans had quite the fun idea today. Alas, no one indulged her. Let's remedy that, shall we? Leave your question idea in the comments and maybe even a guess as what the Mayor's answer would be.
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