The Corpse Flower would be unfortunately, quite appropriate as an Official City Flower for the city of Chicago, when you consider the joblessness, the local murder rate and the thousands of citizens who have moved away. Hopefully, after Ram is gone, they will recover under better leadership. My hometown of Detroit went through a similar Dark Age, and has yet to fully rise from the ashes of corruption, cronyism and fiscal mismanagement. But there are signs of improvement.
They forgot the third Chicago corpse flower...Rahm Emanuel.