The Great Chicago Fire Festival Sets Into Motion The Great Chicago Spin Machine

• Brian O’Mahoney/For Sun-Times Media
• The Great Chicago Fire Fest experiencing “technical difficulties”

After its pathetic fizzle last Saturday, I thought I’d never again have to write about the Great Chicago Fire Festival. A failure like that speaks for itself.

But as the week wore on, I saw that I was wrong. The Fire Festival, like some unholy ghoul, was rising from its watery grave, resurrected by a different kind of spectacle, the Great Chicago Spin Machine.

And at City Hall yesterday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said “the event will need to be reviewed,” but he believes “this is something we want to continue to do.”