Chicago Way w/John Kass: After 26yrs, Anita Padilla is done with Chicago’s media machine
The Chicago Way
WGN Plus
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The 2023 Chevy Equinox with Rear Vision Camera, it's like I've got eyes in the back of my head. |
| 0:06.8 | Go to Chevy Drive Chicago.com to schedule a test drive. |
| 0:10.4 | Chevy Equinox, it's my ultimate mobile device, own it. |
| 0:15.0 | There's nothing like a person from Chicago who becomes a reporter and knows Chicago, |
| 0:21.0 | really understands Chicago and the Chicago way. |
| 0:24.8 | And that's Anita Padilla, formerly of Chicago, |
| 0:29.0 | formerly of Fox Chicago. |
| 0:31.2 | I would have made her, kept her in town, and made her political editor of Fox Chicago, but she moved on to a new venture, Florida's voice, where she is focusing on the news down there. |
| 0:44.4 | But just to hear her, |
| 0:46.4 | breaks my heart because she knows the city. |
| 0:49.4 | She understands what happened when Kim Fox and Tony Preckwinkle took over and |
| 0:55.4 | Lori Lightfoot freaked down and panicked and of course Brandon Johnson is always |
| 1:00.3 | panicking and she knows that too. |
| 1:02.9 | After two decades in Chicago, |
| 1:05.2 | she moves on to Florida. |
| 1:07.0 | Now she can tell the story. |
| 1:09.2 | What it was like here in Chicago too? |
| 1:11.8 | And where are you, if you're not in Florida as Chicago's political leaders drive |
| 1:17.2 | the Chicago cloud car into a mountain of snow? You're on the Chicago Way podcast on WGM Plus. |
| 1:25.0 | So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude to power. And is it's the Chicago way absolutely. |
| 1:36.5 | The Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon. |
| 1:41.6 | It's the Chicago way. The Chicago Way. That's the focus. In a tower by the river, there |
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