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The answer to Moberg’s query isn’t even arguable. The puppet regime that occupies the office of the mayor in City Hall rushed to embrace the Circus Circus-Hilton Hotels-Caesars World casino proposal on the very day that it was first unveiled last March because the proposal meets every one of its criteria for successful “economic development.” (In the Orwellian sense of the term, that is. The sense favored by the regional business class–which holds all the strings to the Daley administration, and has been tugging at them since Day One.)
The proposal promises to develop the economies of the privileged interests that own and control what city planners refer to as the “lakefront cultural/convention corridor”–or the Super Loop, Central Area, etc. An area closed off from the worsening conditions of the Third World beyond by the Stevenson, Dan Ryan, and Kennedy expressways and the already congested northern Loop, this is the one part of the city where regional capital has invested most heavily. Therefore, it is the only part of the city that matters–at least to the puppet regime in City Hall.
