- Brian Jackson/Sun-Times Media
- What’s the fun of cleaning up the last guy’s messes if you can’t make some of your own?
On Wednesday the City Council overwhelming voted to borrow $1.1 billion to pay the debt on some of Mayor Daley’s really bad deals, including his decision to buy Michael Reese Hospital.
That’s my take on Mayor E.’s plan to revive Mayor Daley’s dream of building an express train to O’Hare airport, even though there’s no tracks on which it can run and nobody around town really wants or needs it ’cause we already have a train that runs from the Loop to O’Hare.
I recall an interview with a Daley aide who assured me the tracks would eventually be built by a consortium of private investors—not unlike the ones who bought the parking meters—in exchange for getting the right to run the express service.
Alderman Fioretti: It’s a good deal “even if we don’t get the Olympics.”
Which remains very much undeveloped—as the city can’t find anyone willing to buy it.
I realize that’s a mouthful, people.
