As the smallest of Chicago’s collar counties, I guess we McHenry Countians should be used to being left out.
When the RTA referendum was taking in place, for instance, I had a lot of radio debates with proponents, even a pre-Speaker Mike Madigan one on WBBM and one with Milt Rosenberg with Gene Schlickman on WGN. I tried, but couldn’t get any other state legislator to do them. Most of the debates were broadcast at really weird times of day.
The last one was recorded the Friday before the 1974 primary election. I was debating George Ranney, whose name still appears on “good government” mastheads and was quoted on issues like campaign finance reform most recently.
After the debate, George and I were standing waiting for the elevator in the ornate older high rise where the small station was located.
“If we had know you people in McHenry County were going to put up such a fight, we would have left you out,” he said.
“Now you tell me,” I replied.
Little casino next to Wisconsin's Happy Trails Restaurant
And left out was what happened to McHenry County in today’s Chicago Tribune editorial entitled,
We got left out of the list of governments that had opted out of video slot machines.
The first commenter made the correction:
As reported by the Tribune itself on December 6th, the McHenry County Board voted to ban video gambling by a vote of 13-10 at its meeting on December 1st.
norski (12/14/2009, 9:16 AM )
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The Norge Ski Jump is what’s on top of this blog.