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Winner gets a free ticket to a White Sox game this summer during the Sox Caucus event.
…Adding… Please, keep it clean, people.
* Yesterday’s winner was Oswego Willy…
“I’ll show YOU frugal, Judy Baar Topinka!”
Congrats, man. You finally won one.
* By the way, LG Simon was interviewed yesterday about her bike…
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 3:40 am
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Comment by Leroy Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 5:34 am
Welcome to Chicago
@MayorEmanuel
Comment by OneMan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:00 am
Welcome of Chicago
Yes Mayor Rahm Emanuel Lives Here
Comment by OneMan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:02 am
Welcome To Chicago
A Goldman Sachs Investment
Comment by OneMan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:03 am
Welcome To Chicago
Oprah Has Left The Building
Comment by OneMan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:05 am
Welcome To Chicago
Privatization Opportunities Still Available
Comment by OneMan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:06 am
Welcome To Chicago
Gateway To Dolton
Comment by OneMan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:07 am
Welcome To Chicago
F*&%!
Comment by OneMan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:07 am
Do we all get one of those when we finally come home?
Comment by Skeeter Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:15 am
Residency questions still hound former White House aide Rahm Emmanuel after he takes office as Mayor.
Comment by anon sequitor Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:54 am
Caption: Priorities
– MrJM
Comment by MrJM Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:55 am
Jan 20, 2017. Workers remove signs bearing Rahm Emanuel’s name moments after the now former mayor was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.
Comment by Don't Worry, Be Happy Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:55 am
But where is Rahm’s long-form highway sign? Why won’t he show us the long-form sign? What is he hiding? And why isn’t the media reporting this cover-up?
– MrJM
Comment by MrJM Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:57 am
Burnham’s Corollary:
Make no little signs. They have no magic to stroke politicians egos and probably themselves will not be seen from 500 yards away.
Comment by wordslinger Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 6:59 am
Rahm,
“See, I told you I would create new job opportunities, plastering my name all over the city will put hundreds to work!”
“My educational goal is every child will be able to read this sign by the third grade!”
Comment by Wensicia Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:06 am
Changing of the Guard. What’s left to guard remains to be seen…
Comment by bored now Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:06 am
It’s green for a reason, buddy.
Comment by Newsclown Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:08 am
Follow the yellow brick road to the “Land of Rahm”.
Comment by "Old Timer Dem" Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:11 am
While not breaking from the tradition of the Mayor’s name shamelessly appearing on tax payer funded signs, Mayor Emanuel nevertheless appeared earnest in his pledge to cut expenses as he himself installed this sign over the Stevenson Expressway.
Comment by Tommydanger Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:22 am
Ed Burke: Read this!
Comment by lakeview Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:26 am
Jeez, OneMan!
Maybe you should just buy your ticket.
Comment by Bill Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:29 am
Bill…. Suffice to say I have a very boring train ride sometimes
Comment by OneMan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:41 am
Welcome to Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel… Yeah That’s Right!
Comment by Spfld Westie Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:42 am
Mayor Rahm Emanuel personally installs a new sign over his office and inadvertently makes the 1 foot by 2 foot sign seem larger than it is.
Comment by Montrose Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 7:57 am
Fait accompli
Comment by Former Titan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:05 am
“Welcome to my city. Anne will be over this week with a a pan of lasagna. Love, Ed Burke.”
Comment by trooper Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:19 am
“…and, as your new Mayor, another cost-savings measure. My name will be shortened to “RA Emanuel” and, an added bonus, you can all (expletive deleted) worship me as the sun god. So it is written…so it shall be done.”
Comment by anonymoose Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:22 am
Outgoing Mayor Daley, seen in photo wearing hard hat, performs his final official act.
Comment by Tallgrass Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:23 am
Is that greeting FROM Emanuel, or TO him?
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:35 am
or BOTH?
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:36 am
Layoff effective once he finishes bolting on the sign.
Comment by Ed Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:40 am
Signs that boost the egos of elected officials = job security
Comment by Notsurprised85 Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:46 am
The 2015 campaign has started …
Comment by Retired Non-Union Guy Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:48 am
New guillotine will efficiently handle future disagreements in Chicago City Council.
Comment by just sayin' Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:50 am
I think it’s great that Lt. Gov Simon participated in Bike to work week…maybe some of the overweight legislators should do the same…but they probably get very excited when they pull their cars into those oh so visible parking spots outside the Capitol…keep drinking the koolaid folks…
Comment by Loop Lady Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:51 am
In an effort to “go green,” Chicago Mayor recycles Rod Blagojavich’s old Governor signs.
Comment by Formsgirl Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:51 am
The employee hanging the sign states, “Damn does dis mean the deal we made wit Daley aint good no more”
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:53 am
Curiously, the sign is being placed well inside the city in the 14th Ward. According to sources, it can be seen from Ald. Ed Burke’s bedroom window.
Comment by Thoughts... Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:54 am
The back says, “Made in China”.
Comment by Timmeh Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:55 am
No its not a threat… we said welcome
Comment by Plutocrat03 Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:57 am
Welcome to Chicago, where we honor tradition by plastering the new mayor’s name all over the highways in the old, discontinued font.
Comment by Angry Chicagoan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:58 am
The politically-connected contractor will, of course, get paid fully by the city for redoing the signs in the current font, once City Hall has noticed.
Comment by Angry Chicagoan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 8:59 am
Welcome to Chicago
Home of the 1908 World Series Champs!
Comment by Davey Boy Smithe Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:01 am
A new sponsor sign goes above the scoreboard at Wrigley.
Comment by zatoichi Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:02 am
Following the release of the new Democratic maps, a Springfield worker positions a road sign over the Clear Lake Road exit off of I-55.
Comment by Hon. John Fritchey Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:02 am
“Hey, who put that effing shadow on my sign? Burke? Was it Burke? Son-of-a….”
Comment by Muskrat Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:06 am
welcome back (to the tune of the theme song to Welcome Back, Kotter)
Where is Vanilla Man with a song parody?
Comment by waitress practing politics... Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:07 am
Welcome to Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
There. Fixed.
Comment by JSF Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:11 am
Don Tomczak supervises the installation of the sign welcoming Rahm Emanuel as Mayor.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:20 am
Rahm, “About @$%&#ing Time!”
A note: “Dear Burt, like my sign! @$%&# You, Rahm.”
Rahm, “I wanted noted, only 9 city workers put this up, as opposed to the 20 usually. Heh, it’s a start”
Rahm, “Wait till Barack sees that!”
Rahm, “What the @#$&! I told them, ‘Chicago’ small, Rahm Emanuel BIG!”
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:24 am
Intern Carl helps install new highway sign.
Comment by JL Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:24 am
Sorry …
Rahm, “I want it noted, only 9 city workers put this up, as opposed to the 20 city workers it usually takes. Heh, it’s a start”
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:25 am
“I finally get to pull these out of the attic and get some use out of them!”
Rahm E.
Comment by Fed Up State Employee Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:40 am
MrJM and wordslinger are the leaders in the club house…
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:43 am
Rahm: I’m the big guy here! The rest of you 2.7 million who live here ain’t worth diddly!
Comment by WRMNpolitics Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 9:54 am
RE: “Chicago is ready for fundamental change, and more streamlined government, cost-effective government. And it starts on Day One.
Remember all those ‘Welcome to Chicago, Richard M. Daley, Mayor’ signs? Well, getta load of this…
See? I put ‘mayor’ in front of my name, rather than after it. That’s fundamental change people have been clamoring for. And by doing that, I was able to eliminate the comma, plus, I didn’t use a middle initial, making for a more streamlined, cost-effective sign.
That’s Day One, people, just Day One…”
Comment by wordslinger Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:12 am
In an austerity move, MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL protects taxpayer money by not adding his picture to public property.
Comment by Joe from Joliet Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:13 am
Worker…”I’d like to see Mayor McCheese get up here and move a sign as big as his ego.”
Comment by uunion Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:27 am
This sign saved or created one job.
Comment by Cincinnatus Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:29 am
What are we welcoming Rahm back to Chicago, or what?
Comment by onevoter Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:31 am
Q: How many patronage workers does it take to change a sign in Chicago.
A: One to do the work and thousands at home on the dole.
Comment by Cincinnatus Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:32 am
In Bensenville, a new sign is installed.
Comment by Cincinnatus Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:33 am
And the sign said, long-haired freaky people need not apply . . .
Comment by The End Is Near Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:41 am
“The rest of my new ‘Mayor Emanuel’ signs are still in the crawlspace in my basement.”
Comment by The End Is Near Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:44 am
Where is the question mark?
Comment by Tom Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:44 am
Always polite and classy, the new Mayor of Chicago personally puts out the welcome sign to all the recently redistricted and now former congressmen and general assembly members of the Republican Party, who now must commute daily to Chicago to work at their new jobs as lobbyists and attorneys.
Comment by I don't want to know, I already gave up Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:55 am
Add in parenthesis: (You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave)
Comment by Soccertease Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 10:57 am
It’s official - I own this town!
Comment by KJ Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 11:03 am
Welcome To Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Dont Blame me. Yet.
Comment by Jake L Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 11:09 am
Express Backpedalling Lanes Open
Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 11:09 am
Don’t let the dead fish hit you on the way out.
Comment by Seriously??? Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 11:11 am
The Welcome to Chicago portion of the sign can be turned on and off. The switch is in the mayor’s office.
Comment by Cincinnatus Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 11:20 am
Youve seen the sign…NOW GET THE *@%# OUT!
Comment by prairiestatedem Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 11:24 am
A Department of Transportation worker removes the old sign on the eastern banks of the Mississippi in preparation of the new “State of Chicago, Governor Rahm Emanuel” sign. This is the first in a lengthy transition after all downstate districts were eliminated after the 2020 census.
Comment by Boondocks Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 11:33 am
“If you don’t like it, turn the (bleep) around!”
Comment by Vote Quimby! Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 11:42 am
Welcome to Chicago
Abandon all hope ye who enter here…
Comment by Gost Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 12:12 pm
Hey Chicago, meet the new *expletive* sheriff in town.
Comment by Boone Logan Square Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 12:32 pm
In an indication of the growing crime problem in Chicago’s troubled economy, a traffic cam catches thieves heisting this sign to sell for scrap in broad daylight.
Comment by D.P. Gumby Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 12:36 pm
October 1, 2010: Upon hearing news that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was running for mayor, jubilant city workers rush to prepare for his return to Chicago.
Comment by lollinois Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 12:43 pm
Fritchey wins, walking away….
Comment by Newsclown Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:00 pm
City workers welcome out-of towner Rahm as part of his new job orientation day. He will be re-introduced to the city he’s been away from so long.
Comment by Gregor Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:02 pm
Newsclown, Fritchey is a well-known and notorious Cub fan. I subtract big points for that.
Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:14 pm
An Illinois Tollway Worker on Wednesday is seen removing a shaded armband that was apparently placed on the sign to signify the death of yet another season of Cub’s baseball.
Comment by Tommydanger Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:15 pm
NOW can I have my house back???
Comment by No fan Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:20 pm
Bob the Builder gets new city contract.
Comment by 10th Indy Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:23 pm
Bob the Builder: “Can we fix it?”
Rahm: “Yes we can!”
Comment by 10th Indy Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:24 pm
Welcome to Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel
(”Well known and notorious Cub fan”)
Comment by Way Way Down Here Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:40 pm
We may have a winner. lol
Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:42 pm
“Do Not Doubt Me!”
Comment by BIG R. Ph Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 1:52 pm
No reason was given about why the signs were installed on the I-PASS bridges on the Illinois Tollway replacing Governor Pat Quinn’s name.
Comment by siriusly Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 2:25 pm
Welcome to Chicago,
New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Comment by JBilla Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 2:42 pm
Here is a sign when our lovely President was just the mayor of Chicago
Comment by Lazy Intern Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 2:55 pm
Rich, I call foul. My Cub-iness should be offset by the time you now save deleting comments since I’ve left the GA.
Besides, I was already deprived of one well-deserved caption contest victory because the prize was a hour of drinks with you and the winner, which you rightfully worried could bankrupt the CapFax empire. This time, it’s a Sox ticket. I mean, c’mon, how much could that possibly even be worth anyway?
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 3:10 pm
Oh yeah, that was me (as if you didn’t know)
Comment by Hon. John Fritchey Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 3:11 pm
“Boy these signs are heavy. Good thing we won’t have to change this for a long time.”
Comment by Time Keeps on Ticking, Ticking Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 3:21 pm
–This time, it’s a Sox ticket. I mean, c’mon, how much could that possibly even be worth anyway? –
Have you seen the re-sale market for Cubs tickets? Pennies on the dollar.
It hasn’t been this bad since Lee Elia was screaming at me and my 5,000 happily unemployed friends who were showing up at day games during the week — back when the Cubby Bear was a hole in the wall selling dollar drafts for daytime derelicts.
The star-crossed Ricketts better hope for some warm weather in a hurry, and let the pretty girls in for nothing, because this Cubs team has not yet descended to its level of bad. It’s going to get a lot worse.
Sox are shaky, too. Where’s that farm that parents used to take the old family dog? Juan Pierre and Alex Rios might like it there.
Comment by wordslinger Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 3:24 pm
Change We Can Live With?
Comment by Lincoln Man Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 4:09 pm
Welcome to Chicago:
Wallet Inspector Rahm Emanuel
Comment by Jimmy Snuka Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 4:18 pm
Go ahead and use the Locktite ™; this baby ain’t ever coming down!
Comment by Retired Non-Union Guy Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 4:18 pm
Hope he doesn’t get impeached….
Comment by np Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 4:31 pm
Found Mainly in Chicago-no common name no common ethinic background. Be different be elected!
Comment by Hoosier Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 4:45 pm
Hurry put the signs up before it’s election time again
Comment by Palatine Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 5:08 pm
If Chicago Code had not been cancelled (C’mon, Rahm, make the call), the sign would have said
Mayor Ronin Gibbons
Comment by Cincinnatus Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 5:27 pm
Is this what he meant by “green jobs”?
Comment by SR Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 5:28 pm
Without my finger, this sign is the only welcome you get.
Comment by Vibes Thursday, May 19, 11 @ 11:10 pm