The Reader’s archive is vast and varied, going back to 1971. Every day in Archive Dive, we’ll dig through and bring up some finds. I was going to write about the @MayorEmanuel Twitter feed, which ended its glorious run almost exactly seven years ago this past weekend with the fictional Rahm getting sucked into a time vortex.
And now all I can hear is that music, and suddenly everything just fucking…
— Rahm Emanuel (@MayorEmanuel) February 24, 2011
Steve Bogira, who has devoted years to reporting on inequality and segregation, published a sobering report on the state of our city. He wrote:
Lucky we fixed all that.
We must have fixed it—otherwise why isn’t racial segregation an issue in the mayor’s race?
Try finding a mention of it on the websites of any of the candidates. Editorial boards have decreed Chicago’s most important concern to be its budget problems. Other issues winning attention have been school and ethics reform, job creation, the head tax, crime, transportation, privatization, the O’Hare airport expansion.
The city’s finances are indeed a mess. But financial troubles come and go for Chicago. Segregation endures.
