Boodlers, bandits and notorious politicians
As one local, the late Studs Terkel, charmingly put it in 1986: “Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.”Whew. After all that joy.
Not that it was entirely unwelcome, the joy. Said one member of the Illinois delegation, state Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado, while walking through a city transit station: "Man, if only it was this clean every day."
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