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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ Reilly is a pandering douche monkey of epic proportions, nobody here except our in house shadow-diagram guru Mr D denies that. But I think he unwittingly did us all a favor.
That site ultimately should get something better than another stack of Jartas sitting atop another nasty ass parking podium complaining about every and anything that will obstruct their views.
Just my opinion
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I've defended Reilly before... he is actually pro development to the extent that he can be, and understands that parking lots and vacant lots are a huge drag on neighborhoods. When he can, he's pushed for less parking, streetscape improvements, and other things we all like; this way he can go back to his voters and tell them he extracted concessions.
Some aldermen like Walter Burnett or Danny Solis have their base of voters in minority neighborhoods outside of downtown, so they can afford to run roughshod over the wealthy residents of West Loop and South Loop (respectively) to let development proposals move forward with only minor tweaks. This is more or less intentional in the way ward boundaries are drawn. But Reilly doesn't have that ability; his ward is entirely downtown. He's got to get votes from the NIMBYs at the end of the day... and so far, he's been pretty successful at letting downtown develop while at the same time keeping his butt in office.
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