I wish I could be that hopeful. The last Republican mayor of Chicago was Big Bill Thompson, who left office in 1931 and was a piece of work by anyone’s standards. Chicago is essentially a one-party state. The Daley’s did a lot to make that happen. There is nothing that I can see that in any way resembles a conservative movement (least of all in the Republican Party), but I actually know a lot of people who could be considered socially conservative. They just don’t have anyone to vote for. Rahm had a fairly serious challenge last time, but it was from the Left. Rahm wound up sounding like the sensible one. I know that there was a movement by some black leaders to support Republican Bruce Rauner for governor. One of the leaders was a black minister and former state senator, James Meeks. So who knows — maybe any hope for Chicago might just come from working, law-abiding, church-going blacks, if they could somehow organize. (I’m just throwing stuff off the top of my head, now!) And if they got together with working, law-abiding, church-going Latinos and Whites, they might just have something. But they all have to escape the plantation first.
“But they all have to escape the plantation first.”
You might consider the same advice yourself and get outa Dodge before it goes entirely to the status of Zimbabwe. I used to live on the south side (Oak Lawn), now I get free snow removal in Southwestern Florida.
Seven men shot and killed on Valentine’s Day, 1929. Became famous. Now seems so dated...