Alderman, 42nd Ward. Former City Council President Pro Tem. Was Rahm’s Vice Mayor & lived to tell about it.
Joined July 2011
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Mar 17
My deepest condolences are with the family, friends, loved ones & fellow firefighters who served with one of Chicago’s finest, Michael Altman.
We can never be grateful enough for brave souls, like Michael, who protect lives and run toward danger.
Michael’s service is a powerful reminder of the courage and selflessness that define our first responders. His legacy will live on in the countless lives he touched and protected. R.I.P.
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World Cup visitors have discovered the wonder of bottomless chips & salsa in America. And it’s life changing.
Jun 12
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
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No Scotland , No Party ⚽️ 🏴 🇺🇸
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May 21
Father of the year, right here. Love this for so many reasons
May 20
Me and my son have been sneaking out in the middle of the night in our Ewok and Chewbacca costumes just to mess with our neighbor's trail cams.
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May 7
APStylebook flexing again…
May 7
It's shutdown, one word, as a noun, but two words when it's used as a verb, shut down.
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May 6
In 1705, an Irish woman named Marjorie McCall fell gravely ill with a fever in Lurgan, Ireland. Believing she had died, her family hastily buried her to prevent the spread of contagion. Her husband, John McCall, a local physician, had been unable to remove her valuable ring because her finger was badly swollen — a detail that soon attracted the attention of grave robbers.
That same night, body snatchers dug up the fresh grave. Unable to pull the ring from her finger, they began cutting it off. The sudden flow of blood shocked the still-living Marjorie out of her deep coma. She sat upright in the coffin and screamed, terrifying the robbers, who fled and reportedly never returned to their grim trade.
Covered in dirt and still wearing her burial clothes, Marjorie climbed out of the grave and walked home. When she knocked on the door, her husband John, still in mourning, jokingly remarked that if his wife were alive, he would swear it was her at the door. Upon opening it and seeing Marjorie standing before him — alive, bleeding, and in her shroud — he collapsed from shock and died on the spot.
John McCall was later buried in the grave originally dug for his wife.
Marjorie survived the ordeal, eventually remarried, and had several children. When she died many years later, she was laid to rest in Shankill Cemetery in Lurgan. Her headstone famously reads:
“Lived Once, Buried Twice.”
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We’re excited to introduce the office’s first-ever Business Services Center in downtown Chicago! By uniting Business Services and Index Services under one roof, we’re boosting efficiency, cutting wait times, and making it faster and easier to get things done.
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May 1
AP strikes again…the war on hyphens escalates, yet again.
May 1
We added new terms to AP Stylebook Online last week:
* jumpscare
* fanbase
* lipsync
* offside
* primetime
All of them are styled as one word with no hyphen.
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Apr 22
Editorial: Sure, give Chicago's cab drivers a raise. But they have to run their meters. chicagotribune.com/2026/04/2…
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Apr 15
Facts. Even cities smaller than Chicago allocate lodging tax to destination marketing.
Why do people think the City of Savannah brought up a trolley and offered a free pop-up experience on Daley Plaza?
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Tourism is one of the city’s top employers and this new law will help the industry grow, which also generates critical revenue for the city budget. We’re grateful that @AldReilly and his colleagues understood this and helped hotels pass the tourism improvement district.
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This is correct. The hotel industry came to City Council asking for this new assessment. This is a dedicated stream of funding that’s solely dedicated to travel promotion and marketing. This was not a tax increase initiated by City Hall.
Apr 14
No. The hotels asked for the tax increase and the hotels - not the city - determine how that tourism marketing money is spent. All of Chicago’s top rivals for conventions and tourism already have this self-imposed tax. We’ve lost too much ground on convention and tourism because our industry has lacked the resources to compete with New York, Las Vegas and Orlando’s marketing budgets
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Apr 14
Council committee backs raising Chicago cab fares by 20% to save ailing taxi industry - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/city-ha…
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Here is the Tribune Editorial Board's traditional “bedsheet ballot,” a list of our endorsements in the March 17 primary election.
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If you are voting in the Democratic primary, I highly recommend you vote for Brandon Reilly.
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Mar 17
Very proud to be endorsed by the Chicago Tribune for Cook County Board President! Please be sure to get out and vote - polls close at 7PM.
Editorial: Brendan Reilly for Cook County Board president
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Mar 17
Now that’s Election Day Spirit!
Get out & vote! Polls close @7!
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Mar 17
Editorial: Primary election day is what matters most in Illinois. chicagotribune.com/2026/03/1…
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It's Primary Election Day in Illinois Polls are open from 6 am-7 pm let's go 💯
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It's Primary Election Day in Illinois, and we encourage all to Vote for Brendan Reilly @AldReilly for Cook County Board President.
Let's go 💯
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