Today, Business Week answered my question about why Mayor Daley protects big business like Old Navy more than folks in Old Town, among other places.
It's because ...
"With such pro-business policies, executives say, Daley would likely be a Republican anywhere else," writes Joseph Weber.
The story also answers another question we all have — Why is Daley such a proponent for putting Gigi Pritzker's pet project, the Children's Museum ,in Millennium Park?
Is it to fight racists who live in high-rises on the New East Side?
Nah.
"The Pritzkers of Hyatt fame added at least $161,500 to [Daley's] coffers in the last election. Penny S. Pritzker (page 12), head of the family's realty unit, credits the efficiency of City Hall with helping to get the 48-story Hyatt Center up swiftly from spring 2003 to its grand opening in mid-2005. "It's very easy to put up a building in this town," says Pritzker."
That must go double for a museum, huh Gigi?
Mark Konkol covers city neighborhoods for the 
Top 3 Chicago mottos (in no order of importance):
1. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."
2. "Vote early and vote often."
3. "The Mayor is a friend of mine."
Konkol Note: Or some people — I don't know whom exactly — might say No. 3 should be:
"The Mayor is a friend of ours."
Daley? A Republican?
Raise taxes first, ignore other solutions later isn't a Republican motto.