Burke gets sloppy, and drags Preckwinkle into his mess – John Kass – Chicago Tribune

It’s all so lucrative and simple, capitalism squeezed through that City Hall cheesecloth. Now just multiply that thousands upon thousands of times, year after year, business upon business, large and small, from factories to little mom-and-pop hot dog joints, decade after decade, from the days of Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink Kenna through the years of the Daleys and beyond. All the businesses that have failed and fled to other states can tell you about the Chicago Way. All the jobs gone tell the story.

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