This Would Have Been The Year For Chicago S Boondoggle Olympics

      A few days before Governor Rauner’s State of the State speech, I woke to find a couple of unusual comments on my Facebook time line.



      With that I was hit by a jolt of panic not unlike the “midnight terrors” that the great Daily Southtown columnist Phil Kadner recently described     in his farewell column.



      And that’s how I discovered that a column published April 15, 2014—with a now outdated wisecrack about the Bears—had suddenly gone viral.



      As long as we’re trying to make sense of the present by delving into the past, allow me to share another nugget from the archives: “Funds and games: Chicago’s 2016 Stewardship Report.”



      But how could so many of our best and brightest civic and corporate leaders tag along for the ride?



      This includes everyone from liberals to libertarians in both political parties. I haven’t seen such unanimity of thought since the last days of the Soviet     Union.