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...Mike Royko's Boss isn't such a waste of ink. It is something of a hatchet job, but it explains something that few of the editorial writers bothered to touch upon, namely, that in the process of building downtown, Daley has ignored the neighborhoods. Royko, who is a Chicago Daily News columnist, attacks the old forms of corruption: the election fraud, the kickbacks, the small rackets. Indeed, he describes many cases of old-fashioned corruption in the matter-of-fact way which is his strength as a reporter...
...Hare Airport and erected convention hall on the Chicago lakefront despite the protests of conservationists. He floated a $113 million bond issue, of which only $20 million we ?? to slum clearance. "But since the civil leade?? downtown merchants, and newspaper editors?? not live in the slums," says Royko, "it was not ?? sort of inequity that would bother them...
...Royko shows that there's a lot more to D?? than that. While machines were collapsing all over the country, Daley's was sticking together. Boss doesn't explain why this is so, but it suggests ?? lot of contributing factors. The most obvious ?? Daley's mastery of timing. When Chicago was hi?? with a police scandal, Daley was not at all relu??tant to fire his police commissioner and appoint?? blue-ribbon candidate, a nationally recognized e?? pert on criminology. This removed the police from his control and even improved the force. But?? saved Daley and the machine: better...
...tell him of the poverty she had seen, Daley, in a long-winded reply, pointed out to the nun that their "grandparents can?? here with nothing," The blacks, he said, "should lift themselves up by their bootstraps like our grandparents did," Daley eventually went to the West Side, Royko tells us, in a helicopter during the riots, "to see what people do when they have no boots...
...Royko said a few weeks ago in a TV interview that Daley represents the wave of the future, that cities want strong leadership of the sort that Daley has given Chicago. This seems doubtful, if for no other reason than that blacks, who are rebelling against the machine, are also becoming a majority in Chicago and most other big cities. Still Boss stands as a monument to what can be done through a clever mix of self-interest, hate, fear, good timing, clever PR and strong leadership. If Boss is still relevant in the 1980's, it will be because...