OK, full disclosure here. My 4th floor office here in the Tribune Tower has a window that faces Pioneer Plaza and the Michigan Avenue Bridge. It's wonderful. Unfortunately, during the warm weather months it also means that some talentless guy with a saxophone decides that it is the perfect place to park himself, lay down a hat for change and tonelessly blat out the same three notes over and over and over again. Pretty much all day. It's awful. Some days so much so that it's a good thing we can't open our windows because I am tempted to drop things on the bad man to make him stop. <\/p>\n
As much as I hate these \"musicians\" I love the First Amendment more. So 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have been forced to back off their proposed ban by a threat from the ACLUbased on First Amendment rights. There are a lot of things that are annoying that are covered by the Constitution. Editorial cartooning among them. Thank God for that glorious document! <\/p>\n
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