This enormous fat cat balloon who is strangling a construction worker apparently is the mascot of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters. This inflatable character tours the U.S. to help protest what the group calls unscrupulous contractors. What I found interesting about its appearance in downtown Chicago was someone’s bike was paddle locked to the fire hydrant. It looked as if the man in the hardhat had been snatched off his bicycle seat by the evil looking feline.
