Reply #49: i hate to tell you this, but saul alinsky's legacy here in chi

[mopinko]

where he beat the legendary daley machine, is, imho, one of death and destruction. his big fight was to stop the crosstown expressway. that was a horrendous mistake. we suffer the consequences of traffic, traffic deaths, pollution and countless wasted barrels of oil. without the crosstown, all traffic taking rts. 90 and 94 through the area are fed through downtown chicago. millions of cars and trucks, every day, wading through downtown, sitting and poisoning the air and water.
if the crosstown had been built then, all this traffic would flow around the edge of the city. it would probably be impossible to build it today.
strikes me as something the teabaggers would do.
thank you saul.

now bill ayers, he's the man.