Millennium Park Is Done

Actually, reading this article caused me to draw comparisons between Mayor Daley and Ramses the Great. Maybe Mayor Daley is corrupt -- what Chicago politician isn't, honestly? And maybe Ramses was the pharaoh who refused to "let my people go."

But like Ramses and Abu Simbel, I think more people will remember the mayor for Navy Pier, Millennium Park and other civic projects (or bulldozing Meigs Field in the middle of the night -- that's my perpetual favorite) than for whatever problems he might have caused.

You have to remember, people like these are the kings of spin -- Ramses most famous "victory," after all, was a battle he'd lost.

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