“I think it’s going to be an excellent building. I think it will be a major draw to the downtown Evanston area.”
— Evanston Ald. Edmund Moran (6th)
It is an “extended middle finger.”
–Evanston activist Vito Brugliera
Both were quoted in the Daily Northwestern about a 49-story condo tower proposed by Focus Development for 708 Church St, in the heart of downtown Evanston.

This Vito character must be a stupid idiot.
He certainly sounds like someone who often has middle fingers extended in his direction.