As we will shortly find out there's some darned good reasons no one from Chicago ever before got elected President.
We may stay inoculated against doing that again for 3 or 4 centuries min.
As a resident of the Chicago suburbs I must dispute this. We're talking about Illinois politicians. Party affiliation is a geographic detail, and does not represent adherence to a specific political philosophy in Illniois. The real loyalty of the politicians here is to the Combine, that fusion of political, legal and financial power that enables those in power to maintain it by assisting each other regardless of party.