“How does a politician survive in Chicago without doing things the ‘Chicago Way’?”
They don’t. It is next to impossible to do good in any business in that area and not be a card carrying rat.
We spent the first year of our marriage working in Chicago and living in Cicero, a suburb.
The Rat party was so strong, that even then you didn’t tell people that you were a Republican.
Fortunately, I had a sales territory that took me out of ChiTown 60% of the time into the farmland cites/towns of N Illinois and Iowa along the big M river. That way I got back into sanity and received innoculations against becoming a Chi Town rat.
I got called up by the Navy Reserves during the Cuban crisis and stayed active for two years. I told my wife, that I would never moved back to Chicago due to the politics and terrible weather. She didn’t really argue since she came from a conservative rural area in Illinois.
“How does a politician survive in Chicago without doing things the ‘Chicago Way’?”
They don’t. It is next to impossible to do good in any business in that area and not be a card carrying rat.
We spent the first year of our marriage working in Chicago and living in Cicero, a suburb.
The Rat party was so strong, that even then you didn’t tell people that you were a Republican.
Fortunately, I had a sales territory that took me out of ChiTown 60% of the time into the farmland cites/towns of N Illinois and Iowa along the big M river. That way I got back into sanity and received innoculations against becoming a Chi Town rat.
I got called up by the Navy Reserves during the Cuban crisis and stayed active for two years. I told my wife, that I would never moved back to Chicago due to the politics and terrible weather. She didn’t really argue since she came from a conservative rural area in Illinois.