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Thursday, December 12
“So much for the treasured City Council tradition of deferring to the wishes of the local aldermen on zoning issues.” So begins Fran Spielman’s dispatch on the latest hurdle cleared by the plan to re-build the Children’s Museum in Grant Park. The victim of the violation of aldermanic perogative is Brendan Reilly, a freshman who picked a fight with Mayor Daley over the issue.