I'm guessing that it's going to New York. They've supposedly postponed the announcement until after the election. If it was going to be in Chicago, Obama would help Rahm by announcing it. But maybe that's Rahm's last chip in the late campaign stages and the Obamas will announce it the Monday before the election.

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HUGE revenue dwarfed by even LARGER expenses

1. Rent control that follows the unit not the renter. What caused rent control to fail in NY was people moving and landlords seizing any opportunity to get rent controlled tenants out so the law didn't apply anymore. .5% increase every 10 years.

2. No new residential buildings until the population of Chicago actually goes up. I suspect the city is actually growing anyways but the census is "missing" a lot of people, but we should be using and/or renovating what we have as opposed to just building new housing after new housing for a city that on paper is shrinking.

3. Hamsterdam. No joke, just open up a few small districts on each side of the city where the drug trade is allowed to run without any interference. For no other reason than to just see if it works, the stronger fist has pretty obviously failed.

There's more, but those are 3.

Alright, good stuff

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Your move, Scorehead.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Football stadiums are best put next to baseball stadiums to maximize the use of the property year round and utilize the parking, mass transit connections etc.

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It should have been "you're move Scorehead". Then I would have lol'd.

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Baseball stadiums are best left in a neighborhood because its baseball.

I realize the Sox have failed miserably at this.

I almost did, but sarcasm doesn't translate well in print.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Rahm will put Chuy and his creative financing ideas in charge of covering the tab.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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Disappointed in you, Scorehead.

Madison Square Garden felt like putting on a Rockettes show that week instead. We're shutting down major arterials for a show that got bumped for the Rockettes.


That isn't what a single person said at all. Everyone wants tourism in Chicago! But that doesn't make staging this particular event in this particular way, with turning Grant Park into a "sponsor activation zone," a worthy cause. Yes, out-of-towners pay a lot of taxes when they come here, but all the NFL personnel coming here are supposed to get everything for free. Are the tax revenues going to outpace the tax breaks and general inconveniences in a way that makes this whole thing worth it? I don't know, and it doesn't matter whether it does, because Chicago gave the NFL the option to do it all again next year on the same terms.

Personally, I think the NFL draft should be held in an arena somewhere in the Southeast or Texas -- Broward County would make the most sense with its huge arena, but so would Nashville, Atlanta, maybe Dallas, maybe even Washington. Keep it close to all the college football fans, have it somewhere guaranteed to be pleasant in late April. I don't know why the NFL insists on using fine-arts venues to have dudes put hats on when you can just slap up a stage in a hockey rink and get three times as many people in the building, to say nothing of various outlying Sponsor Activation Zones.

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Today is the best sports day of the year. I have basketball to watch!

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Oh that's okay.

I picked I-State to win it all so now I'm just walking around with forks in my eyeballs and typing off muscle memory because I'm permanently blind.