Chalkie in Kass Column Again

Perhaps Chalkie's last appearance as an Olympic mascot:

• The T-shirt racket has been on my mind ever since "Chalkie 2016" became wildly popular. As you know, Chalkie became the unofficial mascot of the anti-Chicago Olympic movement. He was featured on a T-shirt that drew the wrath of City Hall.
  
  Chalkie is a hypothetical, chalk-outline homicide victim. He would have held his chalk-outline Olympic torch high, though he's most comfortable sprawled dead on the ground, his tiny legs akimbo.
  
  Chalkie would have been easy to blame for losing the Olympics. But Chalkie can't accept blame. He has no lips with which to speak and say, "I'm sorry."
  
  So if we can't blame Chalkie, I'll take the heat for trying to play it both ways.

Hopefully, the spirit lives on.

Since the "Chalkie 2016" tour is winding down, we hope to see a sequel - "The Chalkie and Shortshanks' Political Career Movie." Take the kids. It's rumored to be in 3-D.