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...shouldn't come as any surprise that, in the wake of the shocking allegations against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, observers almost immediately evoked the Windy City's rich, colorful history of corruption. But after a couple of days Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the son of the man synonomous with cronyism and backroom Chicago politics, wasn't about to let the comparisons go unchallenged. At a Wednesday press conference, a subdued Daley, who is bidding to land the 2016 Summer Olympics, went out of his way to distance himself and his city from the stain of the burgeoning scandal...
...Still, some observers, including Dick Simpson, a former alderman and current head of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said a Harris arrest could create some butterflies along LaSalle Street...
...Still, the mayor expressed embarrassment at how widespread the corruption had become and how close it had come to sullying his reputation for turning Chicago into a thriving cosmopolitan city by spurring economic development, reducing crime and trying to reform public housing and education. The probe was led by none other than Patrick Fitzgerald, the same prosecutor who announced the complaint against Blagojevich and Harris...
...early 2004 story on Harris, the Chicago Sun-Times quoted a source as saying Harris "knows where all the bodies are buried and where the gun is hidden." It is that fear that has some at City Hall worried and people like Stewart rethinking his assessment that the Feds squeezed City Hall as tight as they could in trying to finger Daley...
...thing, you just don't give it away for nothing" •speculation by as to whether, if impeachment as governor seemed likely, a Senate candidate could be counted on, "if things got hot, to give [the Senate seat] up and let me parachute over there" •unhappiness of about Chicago Tribune's ongoing criticisms of •wife of is heard in background on phone call saying...