Unfortunately, the only way I fear we'll get real change is to somehow slice off Crook County from the rest of the state.
Let the meat slicer rip, I say. Slice off and sink Crook County into the Chicago River, where it belongs, along with all the other bodies of past crooks of Chicago. That’s why the Chicago River smells like it does...a body of water containing the rotting political history that Cook County is. Horrible and nothing to be proud of. I have wonderful memories as a child who grew up in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, you know, where all the crooked mayors of yore were hatched. Wonderful memories and not much else to remember Chicago by.