Mayor Richard Daley learned that the International Olympic Committee is taking seriously Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 summer games, while Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., got to bask in his first full day as presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
I don’t know what (if anything) of significance was accomplished by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., while Gov. Rod Blagojevich learned that one of his former political fundraisers was only acquitted on eight of the 24 criminal charges he faced in U.S. District Court.
So of the “Big Four” of Illinois politics, it is debatable about whether Daley or Obama had the better day (what do you think?)
But I can’t imagine anyone doing worse than the Illinois governor when he learned of the fate of Antoin “Tony” Rezko, who allegedly sought bribes from businesses that he helped to get state contracts, particularly since the evidence that came up during Rezko’s nine-week-long trial barely touched on Obama, but clung to Blagojevich like the aroma of a skunk.
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