I don't believe for a minute that This Mayor and Council did this. For one thing, haven't you watched a council meeting? This is the very thing that Alderman Partney thrives on. If this were true I'm sure he would have called the paper himself. We all know that he has done that in the past - Wasn't he the one who called Elliot Davis before when the Mayor started working on downtown? At-least he was the one Elliot was interviewing on the street. Also, wasn't the overpass an IDOT project and the state and county acquired the properties. What I do believe is the Economic Development Director is not the best person to be issuing press releases. This is not the first time he has sounded less than qualified in his response to the questions asked.