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Demolishing the silos in McKinley Park would be a blown chance for the city and state to turn the old industrial site into an exciting new place. But perhaps something can still be done, such as a park along the Chicago River.
Despite pleas from community members and preservationists, the options for keeping the structures from being demolished by owner Michael Tadin Jr. appear to be limited.
CHICAGO — Hundreds turned out Friday afternoon in Brighton Park to march in protest of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to erect winterized tents to house 2,000 migrants in an empty
Ed Burke was born into the machine. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the younger Burke grew up in a home steeped in Chicago’s particular street-level realpolitik: Smooth over potholes, fix up friends with patronage jobs, and make sure everyone who benefited knew how to vote — and for whom to vote. At its zenith during Mayor Richard J. Daley’s era, Chicago’s political ...