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Daniel B. Honigman's site: Chicago 2016 Update: Chicago Defender’s Managing Editor Glenn Reedus weighs in on Olympic bid

  • kweenkong · 2 years ago
    So glad I found out about your site at John Chow's! I'm also in Chicago, and I'm on the South side -- hence the name of my blog: http://SouthSideStar.blogspot.com

    I've not spoken with any area resident of the predominently black Washington Park community who's excited about the prospect of the Olympics coming to Chicago. Everyone I've talked with around here believes the city -- and the powerful U. of Chicago -- already are plotting to snatch their land/homes/apartments, with inadequate financial or other meaningful support for uprooting them.

    The possibility of some of the main Olympics venues being built around here, once families are booted out, already is contentious. If Chicago actually wins the global bid, you can bet race issues will become so heated that people will think there's another "great fire" raging here. lol

    Let's keep in touch,

    "kweenkong"
  • Daniel · 2 years ago
    Maybe it's a fire that needs to happen here in Chicago. Some thought the race wars were over when Harold Washington died, and they were wrong.
  • Daniel · 2 years ago
    Someone searched for Glenn Reedus today on Google and found this blog. If it was Mr. Reedus, I hope he read and enjoyed this post.