The Tribune‘s John McCormick has himself a nice assignment. He’s responsible for the editorials that every few days suggest yet another offbeat location for the Children’s Museum.
Yes, there’s the perfunctory sneer at the “Grant Park land grab.” But if not quite a dead horse, the argument against defiling a sacred vista is too lame to make it around the track against the opposition of not only the mayor and the Children’s Museum’s other powerful allies but even Lois Wille, Grant Park’s biographer and the Tribune‘s former editorial boss. What ultimately undoes the museum’s claim on Grant Park is its failure to look anywhere else, and Bruce Dold, who now holds Wille’s old job, decided early on that the Tribune would have to propose alternatives.
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What laws are those? I asked Donnelly.
“Alex is in the Federalist Society,” said Donnelly.
The purpose of the CPA—versions of which have been passed in several states —is to help common folk like the Okons defend themselves against “strategic lawsuits against public participation” in government, or SLAPPS. These suits, typically but not necessarily filed by developers, are intended to intimidate critics by threatening them with lawsuits they can’t afford to fight. That the developers would probably lose in the end is beside the point.
But the judge let other counts stand. According to these, Gassman defamed the president of the association’s board of directors by telling the desk clerk that he “was getting illegal drug deliveries [and] that one of the Association employees was his homosexual lover.”
