Just because Nik Wallenda is willing to risk his life on the high wire doesn't mean Chicago should take a chance too.
Yet the city that welcomed daredevil Evel Knievel and a doomed televised stunt that introduced the concept of jumping the shark almost 38 years ago is flirting again with disaster.
The possibility of an accident, let alone a fatality, may wind up as slender as the metal thread upon which Wallenda, the 35-year-old son of a famous and sometimes tragic tightrope-traipsing family, proposes to tread Nov. 2. Despite his stated desire to work without a net or harness, the state's Aerial Exhibitors Safety Act may have the final say.
But millions of dollars are...