Who spends millions to build out a scaled-down basketball arena/shrine/museum, provide job opportunities for neighborhood people and brings the USA Basketball team (with Derrick Rose and Anthony Davis in tow) to a neighborhood—albeit on the lake—when so many other places and neighborhoods in the city would have been economically smarter and safer? You already know the four letters. For four days for the people on the South Side, it was as one kid said, “like Chiraq winning that Olympic bid.”
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