“AGAIN I ask(I REALLY want to know) why is Chicago and/or Cook County, IL so corrupt?”
They’ve perfected the machine: if you don’t support your local precinct captain, your garbage doesn’t get emptied; if you don’t support your local alderman, your building permit never comes through; if you don’t support your local mayor, your zoning variance is never approved, etc., etc., etc.
That kind of cronyism permeates the city from top to bottom.
And most of the big fish insulate themselves from as much direct involvement as possibe. Lots of little fish get swept up from time-to-time, but except for governors, oddly enough, most of the rest of the major slime just skate above the cesspool.
And by the way, the “crony-capitalism” the current crowd in the White House has in mind for the country incorporates this sort of stuff on a truly grand scale.
What historical event started the corruption?