Fionn, hello.

All I can say is that his father did things this way when he was in that seat, but when he did his hardball games, real heads rolled and lives were sometimes taken. This new mayor D. usually gets a concensus before going in and doing things. It could just be that Bush has set an example that he couldn't ignore. And Bush's war also set a smokescreen that'd push this story off the front pages and into the middle of the papers. The folks bothered by this move are gnerally not Democrats. And the Democrats ARE Chicago. Daley is King of the Democrats in Chicago. Daley the First did horrendous things with his clout. Chicago enjoyed his chutzpah though and kept electing him even though those of us he ran roughshod over are still angry with him all these years later. But who will be angry with this new Mayor Daley for making the park better? The few Enron-type corporate jets and their billionaire pilots who have to land their silver birds somewhere else and then put up with a 2 and a 1/2-hour trip in a barely moving parking lot going down the miles of expressway they now have to traverse to get to their boardrooms, that's who. --------- Not that it's only Enron and Arthur Andersen Accounting types that might suffer for having the airport gone. Some innocents will suffer, I know. But this old world isn't fair. --------- I love it. That's a character flaw we old school Chicagoans seem to share. I'll have to remember to deal with it when I grow up. ;-)

Love,

Art