The Siege of Chicago (2009 edition)

by | Jul 24, 2009


Ah, here is a familiar scene.  Deserted streets, police barricades, stranded buses… the flotsam and jetsam of some mass upheaval, surely?  Nope.  It’s just the security precautions for one of President Obama’s trips to see friends in Chicago…

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