Do you keep up with what’s going on in Chicago?
Yes, I do keep up with events in Chicago, sort of. My Dad was post commander of Fort Sheridan (now closed) & I visited often, starting when Richard J. Daley, Sr. was still mayor & Chicago was known as “the city that works”. Saw all the museums on Lake Shore Drive & took in the King Tut exhibit in 1976. Flew an Army helicopter past the Sears & John Hancock towers & looked straight down into the shopping district.
That was then. Now Chicago is run by a liberal thug who blames everyone except his administration for the nightly black on black slaughter in his city. If you’re black & are slain by a white, stop the presses! If your murderer is also black, then ho hum.
A local joke had a black exchange student from South Africa spend a summer studying in America. Asked what it was like, he said, “Everything is so wonderful! People all drive cars and live in nice homes! And the race relations are so good!”
Asked where in America did he study, the student replied, “Hmm....it was the `South Side’ of Chicago.”
On my way to Fort Sheridan I drove past the Robert Taylor high rise ghettoes. Cabrini Green was more notorious, though.