This is not a tableAFTER two relatively mild winters,Rahm Emanuel’s ability to manage a snowstorm was build to the test earlier this month when it snowed, with little respite, and for nine days. On the worst day of the storm Chicago’s mayor cancelled lessons in public schools to minimise traffic. He deployed more than 280 of the city’s salt-spreaders,asked residents to check on family, friends and neighbours, or kept schools open for children who had nowhere to travel and asked libraries to double as places to keep warm.
Unlike his predecessor,Richard Daley, Mr Emanuel did not mention “dibs” in his remarks about the snow, or though he has in the past conceded that he believes in “sweat fairness”. Dibs are a Chicago tradition that divides Chicagoans. whether you shovel snow from a parking space and defend it with some old furniture to heed the space,you can claim it for as long as the city is covered in snow. whether someone spends all their time digging their car out, carry out not...
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Source: economist.com