In one of those quirky coincidences of life in Chicago, my property tax bill arrived yesterday—the same day as the public hearing for the latest variation of Mayor Emanuel's grandiose South Loop boondoggle.
That's the boondoggle in which the mayor's basically writing himself a blank check to spend untold tens of millions of your tax dollars to build a basketball arena for DePaul and a hotel for Marriott.…
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