Saturday, October 03, 2009

Chicago

I love Chicago. Less than 6 hours away a fun city to visit. Once a year I have my annual pilgrimage for my beloved Cubs. I was born there and have always had thoughts of living in that great city. Reality sinks in and I won't ever live or even stay a night in Chicago. See Chicago is one of those great cities that everyone loves but nobody likes. If you do love and live in the city you live in a million plus apartment, flat, or condo. You certainly don't have kids in public schools. Chicago is the attraction of the suburbs, and if your smart you don't stay in a county named Cook. So what is bad about Chicago? Taxes, roads, schools, hotel prices, crime, trash, transportation, oh corruption. Why corruption from an outsider? You only have to be an astute observer to see how the Daly Machine (Boss Tweed) influences every day-to-day activity of city government. If you want to know how the Olympics would have been handled, look into to how the small Millenium Park was handled, how many of his cronies have been indicted, how the city is broke. Fun city but maybe Rio can handle their corruption better than Daley.

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