Likes subby's thinking.

Sounds like the Bush Administration

Capone'd

Freeper_Madness

Blame the Black Sox

Freeper_Madness: Why is Chicago so corrupt?

Corruption is a self-feeding machine.

How can he hold a gun with all that shaking?

I personally don't really care about corruption in the city and I have lived here my entire life.I find the only people who are upset about corruption in Chicago don't actually live in the city. Everybody knows you have to know someone to get one of those sweet city jobs.

I freaking hate having this city in my state. IL would be a great place if we did not have this shiat-hole filled with corruption.

Can someone post that pic where there's this guy who's all like, "KTHXBAI!" and the riot cop with the billy club is all, "Wait, you forgot your stick!"

xcoastie:
I freaking hate having this city in my state. IL would be a great place if we did not have this shiat-hole filled with corruption that controls the goings-on of the entire rest of the state.

FTFY.

xcoastie: I freaking hate having this city in my state. IL would be a great place if we did not have this shiat-hole filled with corruption.

Chicago is the only reason people care about Illinois.

xcoastie

Illinois would be Tennessee without Chicago. Perhaps you should move there?

Sleeping Monkey: Sounds like the Bush Administration

Richard Daley is the George W. Bush of mayors: dumb, don't know shiat and don't wanna know shiat.

Richard Daley may not be the most articulate man in the world but he is NOT dumb.

kittysanchez21: I personally don't really care about corruption in the city and I have lived here my entire life.I find the only people who are upset about corruption in Chicago don't actually live in the city.

(Though I know it's cliché:) THIS. I grew up near Chicago, and people are pretty apathetic about the corruption. It's equal on both sides, Republican and Democrat, and so long as the city keeps running, NO ONE CARES.

xcoastie: I freaking hate having this city in my state. IL would be a great place if we did not have this shiat-hole filled with corruption.

It's state-wide, downstater, so drop your holier-than-thou attitude. Springfield's not filled with legislative Boy Scouts.

Chicago is a fantastic city, filled with great food, vibrant culture, and Midwest politeness. Too bad you've never actually visited it.

/lives in SoCal now.
//loves the weather, but the "all propositions, all the time!" form of government is annoying. Seriously, the California legislature doesn't actually legislate; they just write propositions and have people vote on them so that they don't have to take any personal responsibility for the resulting laws.
///misses good hot dogs and pizza

Thankfully my coffee cup's empty, that would've been a new keyboard, subby.

Don't forget Italian beef sandwiches.

jimmychitwood: Don't forget Italian beef sandwiches.

Thanks; I can't believe I left that off.

Mmmmm, Italian beef with peppers. Drool...

/Oh, and Oberweis in the suburbs. Okay, now I'm really hungry. At least there's good sushi around here.

kittysanchez21:
I find the only people who are upsetcomplacent about corruption in Chicago don't actually live in the city.

FTFYT.

Submitter: In other news, Mr. Fox has become head of security at the henhouse

Well, why not? He is fantastic.

xcoastie: I freaking hate having this city in my state. IL would be a great place if we did not have this shiat-hole filled with corruption.

OK, ya farking hick. Too bad there already is an Iowa.

Forty-Two: It's equal on both sides, Republican and Democrat, and so long as the city keeps running, NO ONE CARES.

Republicans? In Chicago? You've been gone a long time. 49 of the 50 aldermen are Democrats.

xcoastie: I freaking hate having this city in my state. IL would be a great place if we did not have this shiat-hole filled with corruption.

So basically you are saying you want to live in Nebraska?

Freeper_Madness: Why is Chicago so corrupt?

everyplace is corrupt.

onid70: Richard Daley may not be the most articulate man in the world but he is NOT dumb.

Let me rephrase: Richard Daley is not smart enough to be mayor of Chicago. But, looking at anyone else who could be mayor, he is the best thing out there to be mayor of Chicago. That sentence, in and of itself, is a sad statement on the present condition of Chicago.

For what it's worth, it would not matter who is mayor. The political corruption is widespread, from the alderman who rule their own private fiefdoms, to the movers-and-shakers who run the town from the shadows, all the way up to the mayors that come and go and who have to bow and courtesy to that clout.

The headline is correct: allowing the administration to oversee the cleanup of corruption is ludicrous.

/Loves Chicago
//Hates the system

Hoopy Frood: Forty-Two: It's equal on both sides, Republican and Democrat, and so long as the city keeps running, NO ONE CARES.

Republicans? In Chicago? You've been gone a long time. 49 of the 50 aldermen are Democrats.

Shoot. I mean, across the state, there's corruption on both sides.

Italian Beef
We have a client from California and we took him out for Italian Beef and he loved it. Before he left he wanted to go again so we went and I got a combo. He yelled across Mr. Beef "a beef AND a sausage?!?! How did you do that?!?!?!"


/everyone laughed
//guess you had to be there

I'll trade my 1800 bucks for that Sanitation job and whats waiting behind Door #3.... what a brand new car????!!!!!! Thanks Uncle Louie. Life in Chicago...priceless...

Michael Jackson has opened a daycare center

I thought MJ would prefer opening a Wal-Mart store. Cause, you know, they always have those 12-year old boys underwear half off specials.

kittysanchez21: I personally don't really care about corruption in the city and I have lived here my entire life.I find the only people who are upset about corruption in Chicago don't actually live in the city. Everybody knows you have to know someone to get one of those sweet city jobs.

This

halfof33: xcoastie: I freaking hate having this city in my state. IL would be a great place if we did not have this shiat-hole filled with corruption.

OK, ya farking hick. Too bad there already is an Iowa.

As somebody who has driven across the midwest en-route to the east coast more than a dozen times, this comment made me lol for some reason. Maybe because I came from a hick state that actually made parts of Iowa look big city to me.

But in siding with the mayor, Andersen, who got his job by supporting Mayor Richard Daily said the city's plan contains "important safeguards" to make sure that jobs aren't awarded based on political considerations. "The city will be given an opportunity to show that the skepticism is ill-founded," Andersen wrote.


FTFY

Freeper_Madness [TotalFark] Quote 2008-01-19 09:37:53 AM
Why is Chicago so corrupt?

It's run my democrats who have controlled the city and it's elections for decades.


Sleeping Monkey [TotalFark] Quote 2008-01-19 10:34:26 AM
Sounds like the BushClinton/JFK Administration

Freeper_Madness: Why is Chicago so corrupt?

I say this as someone who generally leans Democratic, but one of the problems in chicago is that it has been under one party rule for too long. It doesn't matter who it is (dems, repubs, green party, etc), one group of people entrenched in power for too results in unchecked corruption.

Freeper_Madness: Why is Chicago so corrupt?

It's a one-party town completely under the control of a corrupt and criminal democrat political machine.

I love the Italian beef sandwiches, and the Vienna Beef chicago dogs...dont change a thing!!!!

/damm id never live there
//again

xcoastie: I freaking hate having this city in my state. IL would be a great place if we did not have this shiat-hole filled with corruption.

Bad news for ya: Chicago is the only reason to visit Illinois. Sorry but Springfield and Rockford just don't cut it.

While Chicago actually is an interesting city, they did give this nation The Daleys. And that is just unforgivable.

Strobeguy: I love the Italian beef sandwiches, and the Vienna Beef chicago dogs...dont change a thing!!!!

/damm id never live there
//again

No ketchup on that hot dog please.

Michael Jackson is dead, you inconsiderate bastard

onid70: Italian Beef
We have a client from California and we took him out for Italian Beef and he loved it. Before he left he wanted to go again so we went and I got a combo. He yelled across Mr. Beef "a beef AND a sausage?!?! How did you do that?!?!?!"


/everyone laughed
//guess you had to be there

little bit of a drive out of Chicago, but Johnny's Beef in Elmwood Park is the best Italian beef place around.

Ikam: Freeper_Madness: Why is Chicago so corrupt?

I say this as someone who generally leans Democratic, but one of the problems in chicago is that it has been under one party rule for too long. It doesn't matter who it is (dems, repubs, green party, etc), one group of people entrenched in power for too results in unchecked corruption.

THIS.

In any place, be it big city, sprawling suburb, or a one horse rural town, when one group runs the whole show the entire time, you end up with corruption. The shame of it is how easily people accept and overlook it, just so long as "the trains run on time."

Imagine how much better Chicago (and the entire state of IL) could be without that corruption spawned out of that ethical morass.

akula: Imagine how much better Chicago (and the entire state of IL) could be without that corruption spawned out of that ethical morass.

As a life long resident of Cook County and a Chicago resident since 92, I imagine this all the time.

/throw them all out and start over

akula:
In any place, be it big city, sprawling suburb, or a one horse rural town, when one group runs the whole show the entire time, you end up with corruption. The shame of it is how easily people accept and overlook it, just so long as "the trains run on time."

Imagine how much better Chicago (and the entire state of IL) could be without that corruption spawned out of that ethical morass.

But... The trains DON'T run on time. Or at least the Metra can't be relied on.

I have to go back there in about three months after living in Japan for 6 years, and am not looking forward to it. However, I do have a relative (by marriage) that is going to run for a Chicago suburb mayor's office. Hopefully he'll give me a hand finding gainful employment...