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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What's wrong with this picture? The man in the middle.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What's wrong with this picture? The man in the middle.:


What's wrong with this picture? The man in the middle.


The man in the middle, between Walter Isaacson and Adlai Stevenson II is Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. They took the stage at Wednesday's Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner benefiting the Chicago Public Library Foundation.

Why Rahm is allowed within 100 feet of library awards dinner escapes me. He presides over a school system that has 160 schools with no libraries. That was one of the big issues raised by teachers during the strike. As for the Chicago Public Library system, it has been devastated by massive budget cuts and layoffs, coming from the