Years ago, I purchased an eleven unit apartment building on the north side of Chicago near the lake. My real estate agent said that our taxes were too high and that he knew a guy. He talked talked to a guy downtown and our taxes were reduced 75%. Shortly after that, the fed put several in jail for corruption. Things have not changed
In 2004, a nephew of Chicago’s then-mayor Richie Daley got into an altercation off of Rush Street, the Windy City’s alcohol-fueled playground for revelers and romancers. Taunts were thrown, obscenities exchanged, and in an instant, a kid from the suburbs, David Koschman, who was just 21 years old at the time, fell backwards, his head making an audible thump as it contacted the street.
Editor's note: This column orginally ran December 6th, 2012.
A friend says that he was unconscious before he hit the ground
According to witnesses R. J. Vanecko, a current Daley nephew and a former college...
Wrigley field was fun. I didn't like anything else.
Well, that, and the fact that every right-winger KNOWS without a doubt how corrupt Chicago politics is, even though they couldn't have told you who Mayor Daley was 5 years ago, is enough to convince me.
Actually, on second thought...I think I'll actually use my brain, and not simply fall into the right wing narrative.
Well that, and let's talk Blagojevich, Mafia, Union thuggery, etc. Geez. Talk about brain washed. I'm sure you have fine, upstanding politicians that get paid by the back door every week. You sir, are an uneducated buffoon.