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The mayor who sold Chicago’s parking meters had a father by the same name (Richard Daley) who was also a corrupt mayor of Chicago, and who infamously reneged on

The mayor who sold Chicago’s parking meters had a father by the same name (Richard Daley) who was also a corrupt mayor of Chicago, and who infamously reneged on a desegregation deal with Martin Luther King Jr. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/how-mayor-daley-outfoxed-martin-luther-king/1902225/?amp=1 https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/how-mayor-daley-outfox...

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throwawaymanbot 3y ago
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SoftTalker 3y ago
"corrupt mayor of Chicago" Is there another kind?
- H12 3y ago
  Laughably incompetent.
- saalweachter 3y ago
  "unpopular", "one term", etc.
  - vlark 3y ago
    "former"
- projectazorian 3y ago
  The Daley machine has been very effective at building infrastructure, adding housing stock, and attracting investment to the city. It turns out that a lot of people are willing to overlook some corruption in exchange for results. (It helped that the Daley family always kept things relatively clean when it came to their own affairs. Most of the serious corruption happened one or two levels below them.)
  - asdajksah2123 3y ago
    I'm curious what corruption means here. From what I can tell, a 10x return over 75 years is about a 3% annualized return. That's not a tremendous return during the Zero interest rate phenomena. It's almost a money loser in today's environment. I do understand the concern about not being able to repurpose the parking spaces, etc. but somehow having been involved in repurposing discussions, I seriously doubt Chicago "Motorists" will ever let a parking space be repurposed into anything else.
  - deepspace 3y ago
    As someone who purchased every edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator from the beginning, I am still salty about Daley bulldozing Meigs field in the middle of the night. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/us/chicago-mayor-bulldozes-a-small-downtown-airport.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/us/chicago-mayor-bulldoze...
HDThoreaun 3y ago
Also the man behind the 68 DNC beatdowns

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throwawaymanbot 3y ago

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SoftTalker 3y ago

"corrupt mayor of Chicago" Is there another kind?

H12 3y ago
Laughably incompetent.
saalweachter 3y ago
"unpopular", "one term", etc.
- vlark 3y ago
  "former"
projectazorian 3y ago
The Daley machine has been very effective at building infrastructure, adding housing stock, and attracting investment to the city. It turns out that a lot of people are willing to overlook some corruption in exchange for results. (It helped that the Daley family always kept things relatively clean when it came to their own affairs. Most of the serious corruption happened one or two levels below them.)
- asdajksah2123 3y ago
  I'm curious what corruption means here. From what I can tell, a 10x return over 75 years is about a 3% annualized return. That's not a tremendous return during the Zero interest rate phenomena. It's almost a money loser in today's environment. I do understand the concern about not being able to repurpose the parking spaces, etc. but somehow having been involved in repurposing discussions, I seriously doubt Chicago "Motorists" will ever let a parking space be repurposed into anything else.
- deepspace 3y ago
  As someone who purchased every edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator from the beginning, I am still salty about Daley bulldozing Meigs field in the middle of the night. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/us/chicago-mayor-bulldozes-a-small-downtown-airport.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/us/chicago-mayor-bulldoze...

HDThoreaun 3y ago

Also the man behind the 68 DNC beatdowns