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And as Ben Joravsky has noted before, Mayor Daley is counting on the president-elect himself to help bring more bacon to Chicago—though he seems to be envisioning the Olympics as more of a big, juicy pot roast. In the meantime, the mayor thinks Chicago can keep growing its tourism industry, even though his budgets continue to hike taxes on the parking and downtown “amusement” that tourists would presumably be drawn to.
