Chicago Papers Silent on Inferior Housing Construction Story

In what should be a profound embarrassment for the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe has scooped both of Senator Obama's hometown papers about the sham housing that was constructed in the former state senate district of the presumptive Democratic nominee -- in some cases by Obama's political supporters:

But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama's former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.

Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama's close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama's constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.

Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. The development straddles the boundary of Obama's state Senate district. Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade.

"No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it," said Cynthia Ashley, who has lived at Grove Parc since 1994.

The Globe story was published on June 27.  The two major Chicago papers, or at least their online editions, have yet to write word one about a significant story emerging within their own backyard.