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Thank you, Supe. Chicago said goodbye to a sterling leader Wednesday, as former Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling officially retired. Snelling was good for the city, good for the department, and just an all-around fantastic leader and person. He will be sorely missed.
Chicago baseball. It’s a great time to be a baseball fan in Chicago. By midweek, the Chicago Cubs were in second place in the National League Central and the White Sox were in first place in a tight American League Central.
News out of D.C. Confirmation hearings for Trump’s attorney general pick Todd Blanche took place this week, and D.C. mourned the death of longtime South Carolina U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham.
- “There’s a difference in being ready to go and knowing when it’s time to go, and once you know it’s time to go, then it’s time to move on, and then it’s time to allow someone else to come up and fill these shoes and sit in this seat and work the hardest that they can to continue to make progress for the department and the city.” — Outgoing Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling
- “It’s not just about doing something. … Don’t treat the people of Chicago like a side chick.” — Mayor Brandon Johnson, when asked whether he’d favor opposing a revised version of his renters ordinance or nothing at all
- “When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain. A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends.” — Hunter Biden
- “If I’m going to work on one thing that I can actively take into every day with me, it should be a part of the process, which is getting past my s−−−. Dealing with failure will always be the hardest part of this game.” — Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong
- “Would you put her even in charge of a ham sandwich?” — U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, on former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot