It’s for sure and forever in Chicago that the biggest decisions being made in City Hall are swayed by politics. Like the recent decision by Mayor Johnson to evict thousands of migrants who’ve been living in city shelters for 60 days or more. That is a problem. Where do evicted migrants go? How much does it cost to take care of them? A problem so big and expensive, says the mayor, it’s nearly impossible to solve, which makes the decision a political problem. 18 elected members of the City Council have signed a letter to Mayor Johnson beseeching him not to evict migrants because, the letter says, “evictions violate Chicago values and severely harm migrants whom Chicago has worked diligently to support.” The letter was a political dig at His Honor, which of course caused His Honor, politically, to dig back. He delayed a few already-scheduled evictions while declaring evictions as city policy. And he’s promising he’ll soon evict more. Which confirms the idea that big decisions in City Hall are being made the same old, same old way of being swayed for sure and forever by politics.

Walter Jacobson gives his Perspective: