Wow. Talk about an angry and heart-felt column. You’ve got to read all of Rick Telander’s column today. The headline says it all: “Chicago doesn’t deserve the 2016 Olympics. Blantly corrupt of simply stupid? City unworthy of 2016 games.” There are times when you get sent to your room without dessert. Without dinner, even. This …
The Reader reports that the plans for the 2016 games keeps shifting and the community keeps loosing as those plans shift. Back in 2007, when Mayor Daley was unveiling his Olympic plans, he promised the games would bring a swimming pool to the west side. And not just any swimming pool, but a $78 million …
The City of Chicago’s Inspector General, David Hoffman, today released a critical review of the parking meter deal and concluded that the deal was under-valued by at least $974 million! The report finds that if the City were to keep control of the parking-meter system and operate it under the same terms as the private …
As reported in the Chicago Sun-Times: City pension officials have been hit with subpoenas from a federal grand jury trying to determine how a start-up company co-owned by Mayor Daley’s nephew won $68 million in pension investments. The grand jury issued the subpoenas Wednesday, nearly two months after city pension officials refused to comply with …