Chicago is alive - Cleveland is dead (and should be deader for it's own sake)

Rahm Emanuel, recently in Mr. Obama's employ, is the Mayor of Chicago.  

But Mr. Emanuel wasn't the leader who got ChiTown's Groove back.   The Chicago leaders before Mr. Emanuel took office put Chicago in the fast lane...keeping people in the center of the city, and keeping the buildings full of tenants. 

How does that happen?   

Does intelligent leadership have anything to do with it?

Cleveland has not had intelligent leadership for a number of generations (I won't mention any names).  And Cleveland get's emptier and emptier.  

Is it just coincedence?

Is it corruption mixed with gross mis-management?

Check it out yourself.  Take the Greyhound from Cleveland to Chicago and back, and then tell me what your personal impressions are.  Greyhound is a very good way to get to Chicago.   Reasonable, convenient, and very American.

More on the Cleveland Greyhound station soon....

Image: Two Prudential Plaza lighted at night completed in 2006 view from Fairmont Hotel