Did Lightfoot make a mistake by weighing in on Lincoln Yards and ‘The 78’? | Chicago Sun-Times

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Did the excellent Fran Spielman make a mistake by writing this sentence in the middle of this article?

Wouldn’t it have been wiser to let Mayor Rahm Emanuel bear the burden of those record subsidies, while Lightfoot tries to extract her pound of flesh on the back end?

Pound of flesh? On the back end? I get a really gross image out of that one!

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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