Lori Lightfoot’s “State of the City” speech could be something new: a speech by a Chicago mayor that means something.

“It seems that Mr. Obama may have messed with the wrong bunch of environmentally sensitive stakeholders. On Thursday a federal agency called the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation said in a letter to the Federal Highway Administration that the plan needs more study and that it’s ‘concerned that not enough detail is provided to properly characterize the nature and intensity of the adverse effects to the cultural landscapes’ of Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance, another park nearby.”

Comment: This is a sad but significant low point for legal reasons we will write about shortly.