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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

Enough with the complaining already

About a third of the Chicago City Council have resigned or are declining to run again. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Show of hands: how many of you are tired of City Council members always complaining? Everybody? I thought so. These alderpeople jostle like piglets at the public teat, for years, slurping up their six-figure aldermanic salaries, enhanced with all sorts of quasi-legal side hustles. Then a sweeter gig beckons, they raise dripping snouts from the mire, wipe a trotter across their mouths, and start bellyaching.

Boo hoo! People opposed me. Lori Lightfoot was mean to me. It isn’t fair!

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