As others see our mayor. From Lisa Chamberlain’s report “Mayor Daley’s Green Crusade” in the July issue of Metropolis: “Seated at a long conference table surrounded by reports and memos, Daley’s locution ricochets from a grand vision of environmentalism to the vexing minutiae of urban life: the damaging effects of rock salt, poor drainage, abandoned gas stations; how to properly dispose of batteries and aerosol cans; and getting homeowners to disconnect their downspouts so rainwater can be returned to the earth rather than funneled into an overtaxed wastewater system. ‘I like to say he’s a janitor with a vision,’ says Barry Burton, a zoo horticulturalist from Detroit who came to Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development in 1998 (he is now assistant to the mayor for landscaping initiatives).”
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By the numbers. According to a June 28 release from the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, 38.6 percent of registered Chicagoans voted in the March 16 primary election. Most committed were 66-year-old women, 55.3 percent of whom voted; least committed were 22-year-old men, 16.8 percent of whom made it to the polls.
