Ah Springtime and Green Acres. I'm looking over my green acres and thinking

about Chicago and does Chicago need a rebrand as the convention approaches?

Is that all it takes?

Some slick public relations to erase all the street crime

and all the generations of public school kids

who can't read or do math at grade level and who are now

fit for prison. On this edition of the Chicago Way we'll talk to writer Aaron

Gary.

She doesn't think a rebrand is needed.

And she's written a fine column about it.

And it goes down like a good cup of common sense

at Johncast News.com.

With Aaron Gehry is co-host of this podcast,

WGN's executive producer Jeff Carlin.

And I'm John Cass, editor andin-chief of John Cass News.

Chicago media used to pride itself on being iconicastic,

skeptical.

But now they serve as cheerleaders for the regime at City Hall, at the Cook County Building,

in the Chicago Public Schools that don't work.

The regime has a frontman, Mayor Brandon Panic Attacks Johnson, and the two brains behind the throne are

boss Tony Preckwinkle and Indiana girl, Stacy Davis Gates.

Hi neighbor Stacy, she's the president of the powerful Chicago

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