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2010-02-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Another Daley Alderman Heads to the Slammer

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 How is this possible Dr. Steve? Chicago CAN'T actually be cleaning up - must be a case of thieves not paying the required commissions.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-02-04 07:57|| 2010-02-04 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Show trials, Glenmore.

The federales jug an alderman every so often to show that they are 'cleaning up' Chicago. Keeps the reporters and the goo-goos happy, and it's nice to have on a resume if you're a federal prosecutor hoping one day to go for elected office.

Daley doesn't mind; he's got 50 alderman after all, and he always has a candidate ready to step up to the big table.

Posted by Steve White 2010-02-04 08:39|| 2010-02-04 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 There is a long history of Chicago
aldermen going to jail (especially the "reformers"). That's nothing new. However, it will be interesting to hear what the recordings reveal. A bigger issue is what Blago the Bizarre will come up with at trial.

Posted by Spot 2010-02-04 08:39|| 2010-02-04 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 The easy solution would be to move the council chambers and the mayor's office to a quad in the state pen.

Posted by 3dc 2010-02-04 11:45|| 2010-02-04 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 What's a goo-goo?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-04 12:23|| 2010-02-04 12:23|| Front Page Top

#6 3dc, how can you be sure that's not what's happening now and we're just seeing the sock puppets on the lake front?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-04 13:26|| 2010-02-04 13:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Goo-goo: Chicago slang for a 'goodie-goodie', a do-gooder, good government type, usually a lakefront liberal who is clueless as to how things really work.

Posted by Steve White 2010-02-04 14:39|| 2010-02-04 14:39|| Front Page Top

#8 An Alderman arrested due to corruption in Chicago - Say it isn't so! Par 4 the course. Aldermen being arrested is the norm. They are like shark teeth. Soon replaced with another and another.

Timeline results for Alderman arrested in Chicago

Posted by Crusoper the Elder3416 2010-02-04 15:03|| 2010-02-04 15:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Are the Wheels Coming Off the Chicago Machine?

About damn time, I've heard about "Chicago Corruption" since I was a child in 1950.
And Elliot Ness around the same time as well.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-02-04 15:32|| 2010-02-04 15:32|| Front Page Top

#10 The Great Flood of Katrina couldn't cleanse the corruption out of New Orleans. I suspect only the return of the ice sheet from the New Ice Age can scrape the corruption from the lake front.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-04 21:07|| 2010-02-04 21:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Are the Wheels Coming Off the Chicago Machine?

Nah, they're just changing the tires and putting on new rims...

Posted by tu3031 2010-02-04 21:59|| 2010-02-04 21:59|| Front Page Top

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