Rahm Emanuel’s awful 2015 has gone national. Rick Perlstein’s “The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel” at The New Yorker went viral, as did a major Washington Post piece on how much credibility the mayor has lost, particularly within the black community to whom he owes much of his electoral success.
Did anything go right for Rahm last year? Perhaps one thing: public space. The 606, the Riverwalk, and Northerly Island’s park all opened to widespread acclaim. It may not sound like much compared to the controversies with police and schools, and parks are usually considered at best a secondary civic issue. But it’s also arguably more important in Chicago than in any other city in America, which ever since Daniel Burnham has defined itself on public space.
[For more of this story, written by Whet Moser, go to http://www.chicagomag.com/city...Gang-Police-Station/]
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