The landmark Blackstone Hotel in downtown Chicago, which has hosted 12 U.S. presidents, opened in 2008 after a two-year, $116 million renovation. Inside the Beaux Arts structure, buffed marble staircases greet guests spending up to $699 a night for rooms with views of Lake Michigan. What’s surprising isn’t the opulent makeover: It’s how the project […]
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Federal subsidy renovates luxury hotel in Chicago
February 15, 2011
Posted in Questionable Priorities, U.S. Economy, Uncategorized |
Tags: american, Blackstone Hotel, Chase, development, federal, Federal subsidy, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase, subsidy, taxpayers, U.S., United States, US
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Corporate sponsorship the reason Obama has let us all down
November 1, 2010Rober D. Hodge writes in his excellent new book ‘The Mendacity of Hope’, “Obama is judged not as a man but as a fable, a tale of moral uplift that redeems the sins of America’s shameful past,” our longing for him to be Martin Luther King reborn. It is not primary a question of individual […]
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