David Axelrod: “Yes, you know, I actually think this could be a very good week. It's an important week. You don't, in a campaign, get…”

An elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency. I called 911, and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well, I'm not…

I moved on, like many others who simply ignored him.

I hope we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.

So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun. I guess that’s how the City of Chicago deals with such situations.