By The Beachwood Contextual Affairs Desk
By the time Blago gets out . . .
* Patrick Daley will be mayor.
* The Cubs will have gone 118 years without winning a World Series.
* Lisa Madigan will have served two terms as governor.
* President Emanuel will be wrapping up his second term.
* 14 more aldermen will have been indicted.
* Patrick Fitzgerald will have put five consecutive governors in prison.
* The Simpsons will have been cancelled for five years.
* Justin Bieber will be 31.
* The Sun-Times will have been out of business for 10 years.
* It will be 12 years since Alfonso Soriano’s contract with the Cubs will have finally run out.
* The U.S. war against Iran will be in its 13th year.
* Derrick Rose will have been retired for four years.
* Wilco will be in its 32nd year; Jeff Tweedy will be 58.
* Oprah will be 72.
* Dick Cheney will be dead.
* The McRib will have been back 28 times.
* Rio will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of hosting the Olympics.
* It will be 10 years since Sears declared bankruptcy, despite millions of dollars in corporate tax breaks from the State of Illinois.
* It will be five years since Groupon declared bankruptcy.
* Barack Obama will be in his 14th year as a law professor at the University of Chicago.
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Posted on December 8, 2011