A fire in Chicago over a year ago....

Sad indeed. A former co-worker's husband of one year died, trapped in a stairwell in that fire.

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The Chicago media loves any story where the local govenrment screws up and people get blamed and lose their jobs.

I remember walking right by that fire as it was happening. It was so scary. The windows were falling out and shattering on the sidewalk. That was a truly sad event.

"The local govt. of Chicago has to be the most corrupt in the country."

You have obviously never lived in Texas. Try growing up in the fourth largest city in the country and they still have yet to provide decent public transportation. The main concern is building huge new sports stadiums to replace the ones that already exist without removing the old ones (the new Reliant football stadium stands directly across the street from the Astrodome). Then they host the Super Bowl and bid on the Olympics while the only public transportation improvement made is one light rail line that serves no better purpose than the unreliable buses that already exist. The light rail holds up traffic and because of inadequate signage, resulted in many accidents and some fatalities. They want to increase tourism without any proper means of transporting the tourists.

And that's just one issue. The Houston city government has had its head on backwards for decades.

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