on the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year, there will be a runoff vote for president of the jackson park advisory council, which has long been a captured body of the forces inimical to preservation, and since we have already lost this park the change may be symbolic, but if the mega-developer man wins, it will be a clear mandate for parks as concessions over parks for people and nature, and it will be a victory of great cost, for the neoliberal conquest of democracy and the grifting of the common good.