{"id":687934,"date":"2022-06-06T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2022\/06\/the-great-chicago-sell-off\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T21:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:51:18","slug":"the-great-chicago-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/06\/the-great-chicago-sell-off\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Chicago Sell-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n\n\n\n<h3>When Chicago sold 36,000 parking spaces to a conglomerate for 75 years, they did more than just rip off their residents.<\/h3>\n<hr\/>\n\n<figure>\n  <img alt src=\"https:\/\/images.jacobinmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/13143159\/t-versailles-880x675.jpg\"\/>\n  <figcaption>\n    Illustration by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samtaylorillustrator.com\/https:\/\/www.samtaylorillustrator.com\/\">Sam Taylor<\/a>\n  <\/figcaption>   \n<\/figure>\n\n\n  <p>Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/subscribe\">here<\/a> to subscribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2022\/06\/the-great-chicago-sell-off\/\">Jacobin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world might be unrecognizable in seventy-five years, but at least Chicagoans like me know who we\u2019ll be paying for parking. In 2008, our city entered into a seventy-five-year privatization contract with an investment conglomerate called Chicago Parking Meters llc (CPM) that includes Wall Street megabank Morgan Stanley, venture capital firm Alliance Capital Partners, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687935,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687934\/revisions\/687935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}