I was tempted to give Mayor Lightfoot a standing ovation for her recent “Chuck and Larry” remarks at the City Council, but then she started talking about slicing the pie—and it was downhill from there.
Other than that—wonderful movie.
I get the main point. As a city we’ve got to expand opportunity for everyone, not pit one group against the other. We shouldn’t resort to nastiness and prejudice, and aldermen should set a better example.
As for economic development dollars, it’s particularly hard to fairly slice the pie when the pie you’re cutting has been baked to favor the people who need it the least.
I could go on and on. Roseland got $678,000, Near North got $35.7 million. And so on and so forth.
As I said—fairly slicing the pie has never been a Chicago thing.
