1994 may now seem like a firework that only fizzled, but 1995 is ready to explode. Such possibilities! The tabloids are now churning out their standard predictions for the coming year. But for those not interested in the usual parade of movie stars and talk show hosts, we offer these local predictions–a glimpse ahead to the events that will reinstate Chicago as the great Roman candle of American politics.

What do you see for Mayor Richard Daley?

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I see he’ll win again. What I see in my head is the winner’s party. I see him shaking the hand of someone and smiling.

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He’s in trouble. There’s a lot of stuff there that he’s spending a lot of time just trying to keep buried. He will have something that will eventually stick, but it’s a question of what because I can see five or six different issues there and they’re dancing around him, and I know one of them will be the one that catches him, but I don’t know which one. I see prison time there.

And the CTA?