“I lure them in with promises of wacky Blagojevich stories, and leave them with civics,” journalist Paul Dailing muses.
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Why does Chicago continue to embrace Al Capone?
In death, the totalitarian political parasite became a folk hero.
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Chicago mayor Big Bill Thompson used ‘America First’ decades before Trump
The city’s 41st mayor used the imaginary threat of foreign meddling in Chicago politics and capitalized on resentment of elites under the banner of America First.