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This isn’t Shortshanks’ only scandal. He turned historic Soldiers Field into a monstrosity, he sold away the rights to parking meter revenues to a private company for 1.6 billion. The company has already made its money back and $500 million more. He sold the rights to the Chicago Skyway Tolls, leasing it out for 99 years for $1.8 billion. He was the bad Daley.

The skyway was losing money. And it had not paid off its bond holders from 70 years ago. As long as the politicians ran skyway. The meter maids lazily walked the city writing few tickets. and meters collected dimes and quarters. Those meter maids are no longer city employees. And those old meters are replaced with an app. City employee unions forced these moves. None of these things made money while the city ran them. And they forced the city to higher thousands of city workers who are still collecting pensions. Public unions are killing Illinois and especially Chicago. Soon Chicago will be no different than Detroit. Daley was a great mayor. Now the unions own the city and its going to hell in a hand basket. You can blame WGN and the rest of the Chicago media. They are all very pro public unions. Its just a shame.

Daly's decisions are still coming back to bite Chicago. The Chicago Bears will soon be the Arlington Heights Bears. They cannot wait to get out of the monstrosity called Soldier Field. Part of it is financial, the City makes a butt load of money off Bears game. With a purposefully built field and business district in Arlington Heights the money goes primarily to the Bears organization.

I remember the MEIGS Field debacle. One of the groups flying out of there were the Tuskegee Airman who provide free flights to inner city kids to educate the children and provide some better role models for them.