Word: daleyisms
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...course, Stead surely didn’t mean that Christ would have been disappointed with Chicago’s corrupt politicians: Who could really fault a city so embedded in its state’s political tradition? Leaders of Chicago’s infamous political dynasty, the Daley family, were daringly complicit in the cronyism and gangsterism led by Al Capone in the early 1900s; Mayor Richard J. Daley notably capitalized on the New Deal and segregated the city on racial lines solely in order to promote his own self-interest...
...heroin distribution ring out of Chicago's Department of Water Management. In Chicago's Hired Truck Scandal of 2004, trucking companies on city contracts were discovered to have links to city employees, convicted felons and the mob. And of course there was the time Mayor Richard M. Daley hired John "Quarters" Boyle - a man previously convicted of stealing $4 million (in quarters) from the Illinois Toll Highway Authority - for a Department of Transportation job. When asked in a press conference whether stealing $4 million from a public agency disqualified someone from a city job, Daley replied...
...became clear that Obama would seek a U.S. Senate seat in 2004, Jackson was among the Illinois state senator's most vigorous supporters. Jackson's support of many local candidates for city office may have reflected his plans to lay the groundwork for a potential challenge to Richard Daley, the city's mayor for nearly three decades. But after Obama was elected President, a U.S. Senate seat was suddenly available. (See TIME's top 10 scandals...
...believe in racial equality, gay rights, feminism, civil liberties and people's right to follow their own star. But 40 years later, those ideas no longer seem disorderly. Crime is down and riots nonexistent; feminism is so mainstream that even Sarah Palin embraces the term; Chicago mayor Richard Daley, son of the man who told police to bash heads, marches in gay-rights parades. Culturally, liberalism isn't that scary anymore. Younger Americans - who voted overwhelmingly for Obama - largely embrace the legacy of the '60s, and yet they constitute one of the most obedient, least rebellious generations in memory...
...Daley family has ruled the city for the better part of a half-century. And while the current mayor is considered tamer than his father, who was accused of swinging the 1960 election for John F. Kennedy with the help of some Chicago voters who had already drawn their last breath, Richard M. Daley has been dogged by problems of his own. At least one of his aides has been convicted in a contract-scam case, and the city council is rarely scandal-free...