Chicago Daily Observer

On July 29 a circuit court judge ordered the Uptown Theatre onto the auction block, and the sale had one immediately obvious benefit—it eliminated the tangle of owners, partial owners, mortgages, and liens surrounding the property and made it clear who’s actually responsible for the place. Chicago-based Jam Productions won with a bid of $3.2 million—and surprisingly, the only other bid accepted was from the holder of the first mortgage, not from one of Jam’s competitors. [Update: The sale won’t be official until approved by a judge, but most observers feel that’s a mere formality.]

Trust me—the last thing I want to do is wade in the muck of 49th Ward politics. ‘Cause, lord knows, you’re all a bunch of lunatics up there.

But, gulp, here I am . . .

I posted yesterday about Don Gordon taking a surprisingly strong stand against construction on Park District property, and that prompted alderman Joe Moore to give me a ring.

“Looks like you’re endorsing Don Gordon,” he told me.

Well, not really—just saying I like what he said at the meeting and wished he had said it when he was running for office against you last year.