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What is Lisa Madigan going to do now?

For those of you desperately interested in local issues (especially OP-RF-FP issues) a regular reader and commenter you know as Dan had an article today in the Forest Park Review.

The time to assess the need for a better, safer Desplaines Avenue entrance ramp for West bound 290 traffic is now. While housing development in Forest [...]

Good one Dan!
From Crains:

The Herculean challenge for the Olympics succeeding in Chicago is convincing city taxpayers to incur a potential $500-million tax bill associated with the cost of the games (”Olympics could cost taxpayers $500 million,” ChicagoBusiness.com, March 9). It’s a staggering amount for “games” when the Chicago Transit Authority continues to cry for more [...]

Regular reader, Dan Messick, suggested I host an actual discussion of the Chicago Olympics to accompany the poll to the right. I think that’s a good idea. Dan, care to make opening arguments?

I’m ok with it. And not because I’m so certain the Bears’ defensive collapse in the Super Bowl (and the playoffs the year before) was Rivera’s fault. But I’m ok with it because it demonstrates Lovie knows that perception is everything. The last two years, the Bears defense has come up soft when it couldn’t [...]

Crain’s Chicago Business published a letter by loyal reader and commenter Daniel Messick:
. . . show where money goes
A suggestion I have for the General Assembly or any government organization that helps fund the CTA: Provide an accounting of where and how the money that is allocated to the CTA is being utilized. I would [...]

Thanks for this one Josephp:

Greatness casts a long shadow.
I wasn’t born in Chicago. I didn’t grow up in the long shadow of the 1985 Chicago Bears. Ditka, Payton, Dent, Singletary; I of course knew who they were, but in a distant sort of way.
I’ve been living in Chicago now for more than 7 years and I’ve been rooting for [...]

John McCarron writing in today’s Tribune, seems to be endorsing the Civic Committee’s tax increase plan over the “tax swap” proposed last year. The Civic Committee plan in fact proposes a number of key public service reforms for Illinois that conservatives would be happy to endorse. The problem is, these reforms are tied to a [...]

Another example of government taking private property in the name of the “public good.”