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...Fire Department, of course, was his (What Chicagoan can forget when the mayor's buddy, the fire commissioner ordered the air raid sirens turned on when the White Sox--Daley's favorite--won the pennant...
...suspicious scratching sound in Attorney General Edward Levi's ornate fifth-floor office in the Justice Department. A bug, perhaps? Much to the A.G.'s relief, a small gray mouse was eventually seen to dart into a hole not ten feet from his vast mahogany desk. Chicagoan Levi knew that the perpetrator was not from his home town, said an aide, "because it doesn't wear a slouch hat." Other Justice officials were unamused. Startled by what turned out to be a secret army of squatters in their gray stone colossus, they demanded a swift return...
...right of this position is the University of Chicago conservative school, named after its home base. The most famous Chicagoan is Milton Friedman. This school believes free markets are usually more effective than central planning and government intervention and opposes most of the welfare state measures supported by Harvard liberals...
...lifelong Chicagoan, Greeley, at 45, feels like an outcast from the city's academia and his diocese. Perhaps too melodramatically, given his loyal circle of friends, he sees himself as a "lonely" and "marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen between his gloomy Victorian room in the city and a rambling old beach house in Grand Beach, Mich., where he keeps a small sailboat, scuba gear and water skis. Beyond that, there is the puckish Greeley to cheer the melancholy Greeley up: "The only time I really feel lonely is when...
Fast-Food Pharaoh. The man behind this success is named not Ronald McDonald, the ketchup-topped clown celebrated in company advertising, but Ray A. Kroc, a crusty, saltily spoken 71-year-old Chicagoan who is rather amused to find himself the pharaoh of fast food. "When I was a little boy, my father took me to a phrenologist," he recalls. "I was told that I would make my best living either in the food business or as a musician. You know, I've done both." After serving alongside Walt Disney in the World War I Red Cross Ambulance Corps...