The streets may belong to the people, but the ward belongs to the alderman.
As debate on the “Big Box” minimum wage ordinance heats up, Mayor Daley, if accurately quoted by the Tribune, has come down firmly on the side of allowing the most backward plantation-running aldermen in the city to dictate the future of “their” wards.
“If [Ald.] Joe Moore believes he does not want a big box, fine, I understand that. They don’t have to have them in their wards.”
It’s Chicago politics as usual on the real estate front — government of the alderman, by the alderman, for the alderman.
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