Marathon Pundit: Chicago Magazine on Reagan home teardown: "We’re going to regret this"

Reagan home April 4, 2013

Dennis Rodkin, who writes about real estate for Chicago Magazine, has this to say about the University of Chicago tearing down the only Chicago home of Ronald Reagan.

We’re going to regret this.

Even if, like me, you voted against Ronald Reagan every time you got the chance, there’s no way to deny that he was one of the most influential presidents of the 20th Century. That building was his only childhood footprint in Chicago—even if he barely remembered—and even if the only reason history knows the address is that Ronald’s itinerant father, Jack, reported that address when he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.