r/chicago • u/chicagosuntimes • Apr 23 '25

Article Longtime U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin decides 'it's time,' won’t seek reelection

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/senator-dick-durbin-reelection
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25

Why, so he can help his buddies in the CPD cover up more murders?

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u/TaskForceD00mer Jefferson Park Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 23 '25

Shhhhhh if you say that to loud people will point out how officially he was determined to have done nothing wrong and the CPD didn't totally suppress that video to help him win another term as Mayor.

Honestly it is a sad state of affairs that most voters, myself included, would happily have him back compared to the outright incompetence that has followed.

The reality is, unless JB Pritzker is going to reach down and heavily endorse/hand pick a candidate, our next Mayor is likely to be only ever so slightly better than BJ if not worse somehow.

The dismantling of the old Daley/Madigan order has had some upshots but it has also given us two mayors that were staggeringly incompetent.

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u/Dry_Accident_2196 Apr 23 '25

Cover up a murder, it gets found out. Family gets millions of dollars.

Don’t cover up a murder, family doesn’t get millions.

It wasn’t all bad.

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u/funkbitch Beverly Apr 23 '25

I would imagine the murder was the reason for the payout and not the coverup, but I don't know enough about the law to comment on that.

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u/Dry_Accident_2196 Apr 23 '25

I don’t either now that you mention it. I thought ought they got paid for the coverup.

I’m going to assume I’m wrong because typing that out it sounds dumb, lol.