Dead ahead: Daley's O'Hare boondoggle

http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeser/cst-edt-roes29.html

May 29, 2004

BY THOMAS ROESER

Will the dead roll over for Mayor Daley? If you seek eternal rest for your loved ones, don't patronize two cemeteries near O'Hare because the mayor will dig them up to make room for his airport expansion. Will he succeed? Or will religion triumph: the belief that the dead should not be disturbed until Judgment Day? On this note as ominous as Gabriel's trumpet, the battle of the city vs. the Suburban O'Hare Commission has moved into the hereafter, with lawsuits and constitutional disputes over two DuPage cemeteries. A cynic would say that having carried the graveyard vote in Chicago, the mayor is ordering their reapportionment. I am that cynic (and a die-hard Republican, to boot), because I live near the airport.

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