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“I wasn’t comfortable commuting back and forth to Indiana, sleeping in hotels in Indiana–it kind of sucked,” says Rodkin. (Lake’s offices are in La Porte.) “And the people I work with in Chicago are the people I prefer to work with. It’s a journalists’ culture here, people who operate at a certain level. Chicago journalists are the tribe I was born into. Indiana journalists are not.”
If you’re a faithful reader of “Celebrity Magazines”–which Hahn will go on writing as a freelancer–you might expect Hahn to deliver that kind of judgment. But she says, “Last weekend I was in Chicago at the corner of Clark and Diversey, where the Borders is, and it was a Saturday and there were four million people on the sidewalk and it was about 90 degrees. And I thought ‘Oh my God, I don’t miss this at all!’
Betsy Vandercook read that and gagged. President of the Chicago Recycling Coalition, she remembers voting in the poll, checking the results several times during the evening, and going to bed secure in victory. As of 10 PM, 23 of the 24 votes cast had favored dumping the Blue Bag program.
“The last time I looked [at about noon],” Vandercook e-mailed me, “there were 7,615 votes cast, with 51% to change, 49% to retain. Then WTTW took down the poll and put up the new one.”
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