At the moment, several black civic and civil rights groups are furious with Greco for threatening to tinker with the city's historically black golf course, Rogers Park. Greco wants to turn over the management of Rogers Park to the YMCA and let the Y use its own money to fix up the course. The black opponents, who fear the Y would turn the course into a place where black people are no longer welcome, exerted so much pressure they've persuaded a majority of City Council members to kill the deal. You'd think that Greco would have turned to Lane right away for advice on this one. But some things are more important in the Greco administration than race.
Real estate is.
Deal making is. The man who put the deal together was Dick Greco's old friend, businessman and consultant Ron Rotella. Only now is Greco turning to Lane, partly to help him fix things. It's just a theory, but perhaps if they quit treating the mayor's executive assistant as a token position the city would avoid messes like Rogers Park, before they started. There's a term in politics.