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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: The messianic complex plaguing the city’s future

The Chicago Way

WGN Plus

News & Politics, News, Columnist, Politics, Carlin, Plus, Wgn, Jeff, Tribune, John, Chicago, The, Kass, Radio, Way

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Way w/John Kass (02/10/25): Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) explains the special purpose room that houses a bounty of gifts on the 5th Floor of Chicago City Call and why he thinks it will take someone special to help Chicago course-correct before it’s too late. Plus, Kasso wonders who […]

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0:00.0

Chicago is in deep trouble. We all know that. Look around you. The mayor is losing his mind.

0:07.1

The people are leaving. There's going to be a strike in the schools. It continues.

0:14.0

But it continues like a jalopy with the wheels falling off, like groaning to a stop and it keeps going.

0:22.8

And in every revolution of those wheels is pain for the people of Chicago.

0:29.6

Now, I don't know who's going to clean it up, but, you know, in order to clean it,

0:33.6

you have to see it.

0:34.6

In order to see it, you have to read about it.

0:37.1

And media is lost in Chicago.

0:39.4

It's broken. Look it, for example, in the latest controversy, USAID involves partly $270 million going to groups affiliated with George Soros.

0:54.8

Now, who's going to investigate that?

0:57.0

270 million to George Soros groups and all those lefties on the streets

1:02.4

screaming their heads off, talking about bringing to the streets,

1:06.7

let's fight, let's fight.

1:08.4

Who's going to investigate and pull that apart?

1:11.8

There's a Tribune going to do that?

1:14.4

Is the Sun-Times going to do that?

1:16.3

Is W-B-E-Z going to do it?

1:19.8

They're all paid.

1:21.5

Is the rest of the media going to do it?

1:23.9

No.

1:25.2

And by paid, I mean, they're taxpayer-funded groups. They're afraid to do it.

1:32.3

But we have Ray Lopez here. And Ray Lopez, Alderman of the 15th Ward, is trying to draw a line and point out what we have to do to dismantle this messianic politics of Chicago

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