Linder and his allies on the all-Democratic council are only the second crew of Democrats to control City Hall in more than a century. And they have some new ideas that, not coincidentally, jibe with what I've been hearing for years in Chester neighborhoods when chatting up city residents about the stadium and soccer. "I think the city should get more back. We should reap some of the benefits," Berry said outside his duplex near 3rd and Broomall streets, the other half of which is abandoned and looks structurally unsound. He glances over his shoulder. "You see what I'm living next to?"