After almost two intense months of sheltering in place, it seems like the country’s slowly getting back to normal—at least when it comes to political power plays.
But I would say that both acts come straight from the Book of Rahm—chapter one, verse one—where our former mayor advises to never allow a good crisis to go to waste.
Actually, I’m the only person who calls it that—just my way of tipping my hat to Mr. Glowacz, my old podcasting partner, who alerted the city to the mayor’s executive order in an article that recently ran right here in the Reader.
And how did Mayor Lightfoot react? Man, I haven’t seen such a glorious mayoral eruption since Mayor Daley blew his stack at Alderman Robert Fioretti for—you know, I can’t remember why Daley got so angry at Fioretti.
You hear that Lopez and Ramirez-Rosa? Those deaths will be on your hands!
Well, at the risk of getting the mayor really mad at me, I’m not convinced. I mean, of all the problems Chicago faces, I’d say mayoral helplessness in the face of a too-powerful council would not make the top, oh, 10,000. Largely because it’s a problem that does not exist.
