Oak Park

is the target of a recent lawsuit, filed after officials decided Lane Bryant doesn’t fit the “kind and quality” of shops desired for the building.

Sun-Times reports.

In a downtown known for its trendy shops and clothing stores, Village President David Pope said officials want “a more broad-based retailer” to fill the building rather than one with “a niche market.”

Lane Bryant specializes in clothing for women sizes 14 to 28.

Since when does local government make marketing decisions for developers?

Tom Roeser does this alderman up very nicely in his blog item about “the lucky sperm club” of public office heirs:

The fastidious, preening Edward, his white hair in a blow-dry pompadour, his chiseled face held high at a jaunty angle, wearing a flowing $150 green tie from Stuart’s on Michigan avenue, acts as to the manor born as he strides up to the altar in a $3,000 suit at St. Peter’s each noon in Lent to receive the sacrament to which he believes he is thoroughly entitled as a Burke.

Alderman Eddie, a.k.a. Mother Burke, our Carrie Nation of the dining room table, is the main character of several whom Roeser names to go with our incipient latest of the breed, Young Stroger. 

 

Claypool making noises:

Commissioner Forrest Claypool, who lost the Democratic primary to John Stroger, said letting ward bosses decide who’s [on] the ballot shows “a remarkable, almost breathtaking contempt for the voters and taxpayers of Cook County.”

Beavers too:

Asked Monday, [Ald.] Beavers quickly denied there was anything misleading, saying “oh, hell no,” before calling Orr a “little poop butt.”

“What does he care?” he asked.

Orr:

Orr said his office still hasn’t received a signed and notarized “withdrawal of candidacy” form needed to remove Stroger’s name from the ballot.

That’s adding confusion to a situation that has been confusing from the start, causing Orr to call it all “very embarrassing” and “bush-league political stuff.”

And Danny our boy, beloved of some goo-goo libs for no apparent reason:

Davis said he’s fighting “the wheeling and dealing” the Stroger camp has been engaged in since John Stroger suffered the stroke.