What a pile.
Actually, I remember Mayor Daley. The first one. Met him once. A real scoundrel and also most powerful person I ever met — and I’ve met plenty. When he was mayor, I was a teenager and could walk across the loop from the train station to Michigan Avenue for dental appointments with zero fear of getting mugged.
Today, I’d make it a block, if that.
So yes indeed, Lightfoot sux.
Veto!
(The girl)
I had connections to King Richard— both of them. Each ran a tight ship and tolerated zero corruption. They were not interested in money, only in the levers of power. Both had their flaws but were infinitely better than any other in the modern era.