I meant to comment on it the moment I read about it – “it’
being the grand
bargain being worked out between Michael Madigan and Bruce Rauner that
would result in the orphaning of the Lincoln Presidential library and museum
and the abandonment of our historic preservation agency to the Babbits at the
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity in return for the transfer of
sovereignty to Rauner’s minions in deciding tax policy – but I am laid low at
the moment by a bad case of outrage fatigue.
I will say here that the idea is unique in
Illinois annals in being perfect in its stupidity. For readers interested in my
reasons, I refer to you “Illinois
Historic Preservation Agency fights for survival” by Chicago Tribune
architecture critic Blair Kamin. Kamin is only the fourth of fifth best writer
on Chicago architecture and urbanism in Chicago, but in this piece he gets it
all right.
This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2015.
