While kids in Chicago continue to die at two-to-three times the rate of troops in Afghanistan, the mayor and his corporate patrons
are worried that the nearly 40% rise in killings this year is
grabbing headlines and that the body count may be bad for business.
We need the mayor, who is the city's best spokesperson, to be public in an aggressive way. He should be prepared to call convention groups and reassure them of everything that is going on. The mayor needs to be public in saying we don't have a crime problem. The real danger isn't to tourists. The real danger is a convention group that gets panicked and we lose millions. -- Laurence Geller, president and CEO of Chicago-based Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc.
Rahm jumped on his assignment and
used the shooting death of 7-year-old Heaven Sutton as a his chance
