Comment of the day: Go Feds!

Levois asked for it, and Irishpirate awoke from his drunken slumber last night to respond to Joe Zekas’ driving tour of Kenmore Avenue in Uptown. Joe went on a nostalgia trip, recalling the “war zone” that was Kenmore Avenue in which developers took back properties with “hand-to-hand combat.”

Irishpirate agreed with Joe that Kenmore has gone from “Desolation Row” to a street where “there are actually people coming home from work,” but he accused Joe of understating Uptown’s desolation in the 1980s. (Joe responded with accounts of flying bodies and stolen sod.)

Irishpirate also took a moment to dish on the pending Wilson Yard development. We haven’t addressed that project too much on Yo, but we constantly link to articles covering Wilson Yard in our YoChicago news feed.

As for Wilson Yard it may be about to start or not. We peon taxpayers are not worthy of being informed of what our tax dollars are doing. Target seems to be close to signing a deal and the two towers of subsidized housing may not be far behind. One tower for seniors and one tower for families. Ultimately I don’t expect either tower to cause many problems because generally Holsten Management does a good job managing subsidized housing. If only through years of learning how to the hard way.

My biggest issue is the idea of building a major retailer and NOT directly tying in a needed renovated EL stop. Absolute criminal stupidity that could only happen in a Chicago where “da mare” is more concerned with 100 percent aldermanic support than real planning. The lil’ guy must have a very fragile ‘wittle’ ego to crave absolute slavish devotion so wholeheartedly.

The infrastructure of this city is slowly falling apart and he is planning Olympics, which I support, and trying to figure out how to stay two steps ahead of those nasty Fed G-men. It must be difficult running a city and making sure your extended family does well financially with all those feds poking around.

Go Feds!