Pro tip for mayoral hopefuls: Don't govern by press release, do sweat the small stuff
by
Mick Dumke
on
September 13, 2018 at 6:00AM
The issues Tracy and residents discussed at the meeting—involving crime, disinvestment, and inequality—offered glimpses of the challenges the next mayor is going to have to address in neighborhoods around the city, and that many Chicagoans never felt Emanuel fully took on. Former downtown alderman Burton Natarus used to say, proudly, that he was the janitor of his ward, the one who took care of all the little things, starting with making sure the garbage was picked up.
