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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.

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.

The Skyway was operating for forty seven years before it was sold, were they selling bond for twenty three years before the Skyway was built?

Revenue wasn’t generated just by “lazy” meter maids writing tickets to expired meters, it is mostly generated by drivers feeding the meters. You can’t blame the city politicians mismanagement on “lazy” meter maids. Daley was a terrible, communist loving mayor. His father is rolling in his grave.

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.

He should be in jail, like all democrats and many republicans. Maybe if Daley didn’t use the city pension funds as his piggy bank and made the required contributions, he wouldn’t have had to sell off city assets. He gambled and lost with those funds, and was ordered by a judge to contribute back into the funds what he “borrowed”.