Meanwhile, at the corner of Wilson and Sheridan, where the gangbangers raised havoc a couple of nights ago, a local man tells Mary Schmich that “he loves the neighborhood and has come to believe that if violence is going to get you, it can get you in any neighborhood.” Which may be so, but I’m glad my daughter moved out of that one a few months ago.
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Back in Chicago, the mayor’s comptroller was just indicted in Ohio, and the mayor wants to get to the bottom of it but as John Kass contends, maybe just sort of near the bottom, just deep enough to stir up a little silt. And wealthy suburbanite Bruce Rauner has come up with a nifty way to legally pour unlimited amounts of his own money into his race for governor, and how did Rauner come to be the guy our mayor thinks has the answers to the problems of public education in Chicago? Or is it just the strange need of even the brightest and most cosmopolitan cynics to believe there is someone out there—some Maharaj Ji perfect master—who knows the Way?
Oh yeah, in the Tribune‘s A+E section, Elmore Leonard died.
