Pritzker For Prez? / Chief Keef's Granny Was Right / Poll: Fire Tony?

A decade ago, Chief Keef was Chicago's juvenile public enemy No. 1.

The other day, someone posted a video of the rapper with his new Scooby-Doo Lamborghini.

Despite a few minor run-ins with the law, Chief Keef didn't turn out to be the threat to public safety Rahm Emanuel made him out to be. He left Chicago. The violence stayed.

In 2012, Chief Keef's Granny Margaret Carter told me the young rapper would turn out alright. Hardly anybody believed her. But she was right.

KONKOL COLUMN: Remembering The Wisdom Of Chief Keef's Granny, Margaret Carter

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About me: Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."

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