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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

You can’t go dome again

Mayor Richard M. Daley shows the media the “new” Soldier Field model, with a retractable dome, in 1996. (Photo by Brian Jackson)

Again with the dome.

Forgive me for lapsing into Yiddishkeit. But to see Mayor Lori Lightfoot drag out the dome will-o’-the-wisp, like a much-adored toddler’s blankie now worn to a nubbin, and wave it over her head, as if it were an original genius divination of her own — it taps into a well of deep Chicago nostalgia. It makes me want to set up a cart in Maxwell Street and start selling bottles of Professor Steinberg’s Amazing Old World Cure-All.

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