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Originally Posted by CCCguy
Long time lurker, but very light poster. I agree with you Urban. Bring Randolph back to its marquee days.
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As for the Blandon, it really blows my mind how much the alderman make. There are maybe a handful that know what it means to live in an urban center. Nonetheless, I found a spreadsheet with their salaries from 2012. In total, they are costing the city roughly 6.5 million a year. Let's not add in the construction jobs and property taxes that could be sprouting up throughout the city, but are constantly being cut due to alderman pandering. Ass backwards! They are not urban planners and should not have any say in regards to density and urban progress.
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I love the lights in that old pic. Too bad so many people in Chicago are anti-sign.
The aldermen don't make outrageous salaries. It is a full-time job, and Chicago is more populous than many countries. An argument can certainly be made that there are too many of them, but the approximately $125k they each earn really isn't anywhere close to exorbitant for a professional-class job.
As far as "aldermanic privilege" goes, though, I fully agree that it should be curtailed and is obviously a source of both small and large corruption. If it was ever beneficial to the city or citizens at large, it no longer is.