Fresh from his win on Wrigley Field renovations, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel got good news on one of his other pet projects yesterday, as Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill that would help allow him to use public funds for a new arena for private DePaul University. Exactly what it does to help isn’t something that any Chicago-area news outlet seems to have reported, because Quinn mostly talked about building a third airport in Chicago, and what kind of modern journalist writes about things other than what the person giving the press conference wants them to write about? That’s just crazy talk.
Quinn’s bill-signing came one day after Chicago teachers protested 2,000 school layoffs that were announced last Friday, calling on the governor not to approve the DePaul project while the school system is “being decimated by massive budget cuts.” Maybe they should have tried mailing the governor a dead fish.