By Mario Kladis
A young couple walks by. The girl pokes her boyfriend in the ribs and points at Robbie; the boy sees the poop and starts to slow down. When he notices the three of us staring at him, he puts his arm around her, and they walk away.
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“Slouching?” Margot suggests.
“The poop came first,” says Margot, “because, well, the poop is funny.” But they wanted to do more than make people laugh. “The powers that be,” Todd says, “are consciously trying to turn Chicago into a tourist city–a Candyland–as opposed to a neighborhood city, where real people live and work. Richie Daley wants to push out all the ‘irrelevant’ people–basically the poor and the homeless–so he can turn downtown into this kind of walled-in playground. It’s a cycle of…”
Back in the car Todd and Margot tell me why they chose Robbie.
“Were you worried about getting caught?” I ask.
