That was my reaction to the news that Alderman Carrie Austin’s office on the South Side had been raided by the FBI. From the Sun-Times:
Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) was praising the Lord at a school event Wednesday morning, saying “today is a day truly that God has made because he made us the star of the show,†when federal agents a few miles away were thrusting her center stage into Chicago’s hottest criminal investigation.
While Austin was talking about a school mentoring program, alongside Mayor Lori Lightfoot at Percy Julian High School, FBI agents were raiding her ward office as part of the ongoing political corruption investigations of Chicago aldermen.
With the public raid, Austin, 70, joins the select company of veteran, powerful Chicago aldermen implicated in the investigations.
47 more to go.
Heh.
Just met the new neighbors. Well, well, well. They are from Bartlett. Another refugee. Our friends from Naperville arrive in about a month. Another couple from Naperville look like they are new residents as of this fall.