^ Which is why you need to revisit the "Chico and Preckwinkle are equally bad" mentality.
No they ain't. One will usher in rent control if given the opportunity, the other has already stated that he opposes it.
The truth is, though, if we don't have a State rent control ban then rent control is essentially coming to Chicago--it's only a matter of time. There will inevitably be a liberal enough administration to pass it on the grounds that the regular folks who own buildings are "evil profiteers", and that it's everyone's God-given right to live in Lincoln Park and Lakeview. Englewood and West Garfield Park be damned, let those areas of town deteriorate into fields of grass.
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