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When I hear Mayor Brandon Johnson rail against the idea of raising Chicago’s paltry $9.50 garbage collection fee to help fill our gaping $1.2 billion budget gap, I remember a beautiful 12,000-square-foot mansion in Kenwood I walked through a few years back.

The four-story masterpiece features a ballroom on top, and turrets flanking the massive front porch. This place has every single room you’d need to play Clue. My daughter and I enjoy attending opulent open houses, so when this one got rehabbed and put on the market, we showed up early. The dining room should have featured a goalpost, since the double living room was the size of a football field.

In contrast, I live in a condo association of about a dozen six-flats. My unit is slightly unde

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