"This town ain't ready for reform." Paddy Driscoll - 1920's
Paul Powell - Secretary of State - died in 1970 - when they cleaned out his apartment, there was a closet full of shoe boxes, and each shoe box was full of $100 bills.
Mike Royko, from the book Boss, "The official slogan of the Chicago City Council should be, "Ubi Mea", which translates to "Where's Mine?"
And the beat goes on. This is a relatively minor scandal, as Illinois politics goes, but you have to keep up tradition.
That's Paddy Bauler