A medical district for Roseland??   Not so fast
posted 12-16-2011 1:45 p.m.

 
Let's get one thing straight at the start: I want Roseland to recover from its economic black hole and be able to offer good jobs to its residents. I'd love for it not to be the armpit of poverty that it's been for a few decades on the South Side of Chicago. It would be good for the people and good for the city. That said, I have to wonder what toxic waste filtered down into the drinking water there to make the local activists think that starting a medical district down there was the answer.

Gov. Quinn gave the community false hope, if you ask me, by making the designation official. But nobody's come up with the resources and commitments to make it real, and the likelihood that they will is poor. We'll see a functioning airport in Peotone before that happens.