When we have to visit Chicago, we fill up in Indiana and buy a lunch to take into the city. We do our business and get out.
Our goal is usually to not spend any money there or get caught in gang related crossfire.
Rahm now is planning to have 800 ‘Urban campsites’ (stress homeless bums), on land that was formerly a very active business airport which was destroyed by the previous mayor of Chicago.
Northerly Island Reimagined As Urban Camping Destination
August 16, 2012 5:45 AM
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/16/plans-for-northerly-island-park-set-to-go-ahead/
Former Chicago Mayor Daley bulldozed the lakefront airport, which destroyed the chance of businesses continuing to have conventions in Chicago. Most large businesses now hold conventions only in business friendly cities.
Barack Obama and Bulldozer Democracy
Daley is perhaps Barack Obama’s biggest and most important political patron as Jeremiah Wright is his most important religious leader and Rezko his biggest early financial backer. Obama got his start in politics as part of Daley’s political machine. Obama was an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, while the Meigs saga was playing out. As a Daley acolyte, Obama never said a word about Daley’s execrable trampling of the rights of Meigs Field, its businesses and users, and its supporters. To Daley/Obama, the only important thing is getting what they want. Oh, one more thing. Obama’s wife, Michelle, was a member of the Chicago Planning Commission while the destruction of Meigs was being planned in secret. She, like Obama, refuses to talk about this criminal enterprise. If Obama is elected president, it seems a safe bet that the country can expect Bulldozer Politics to quickly spread nationwide. “
http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=147&t=858324