Ahhhh, the good old days. I remember when the current Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, son of the late “Da Mayor” Richard J. Daley, was just a young whippersnapper trying to earn fame and fortune in the insurance business. The press got wind that a very lucrative multimillion dollar insurance contract for the city of [...]
Okay. Let’s try this. Great white tap dancers: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Bob Fosse. Great black tap dancers: Gregory Hines, Maurice Hines, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, James “Jimmy Slyde” Godbolt, Barack Obama. I’m guessing that there is probably no way to include tap dancing and this history-making first black president in the same sentence [...]
Welcome my friends, welcome to the machine. With deference to Roger Waters for the slight edit, this opening line from the classic Pink Floyd tune seems perfectly suited to the exposition of Chicago machine politics coming out of the White House. In one of THE most Orwellian acts yet to come from this administration of [...]
