My Kind of Town is building a new school atop 38,000 unmarked graves, which I’m sure will thrill whatever kiddies end up attending it. According to this article in the Tribune, the site is the final resting ground of paupers, and the insane, and Civil War vets, and victims of the Great Fire, and those who succumbed to the consumption. Now it’s slated to be a middle school, though some aldermen insist it’ll be a high school.

Whatever grades the Read Dunning School ends up serving, those 38,000 poor souls deserve better treatment than this. They are voters. They have come through for the likes of Big Bill Thompson, Jack Kennedy, the Daley Dynasty, you name it– and what’s their reward? To have America’s Future™ traipsing all over them 180 days a year. It’s disgraceful.

These people deserve respect. It’s bad enough that some politicians are demanding that they show photo ID before they vote. It’s bad enough that some politicians insist they be citizens before they vote. At least grant them the dignity of undisturbed slumber between elections.