I would not want to be an aide in Mayor Richard Daley’s office this week. I can imagine more than a little throwing of paperweights and the hurling of non-public language after Chicago City Council’s rebuff of the Mayor Richard Daley’s support for Walmart.

From Jameson:

Attempts to make the way for more Chicago Wal-Mart stores fell through this week in city council meetings.

Now, the nationwide chain of superstores only has one Chicago location within the city, on North Avenue in the West Side. Another site in Chatham on the South Side, where a Wal-Mart is supposed to be built, was on hold due to the labor groups, Wal-Mart and the city council being unable to come to an agreement on a living wage ordinance for the employer.

I think that unable to come to an agreement is far too soft a phrase for what happens in Chicago politics.

Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.

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