Word: alderman
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...Still, some observers, including Dick Simpson, a former alderman and current head of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said a Harris arrest could create some butterflies along LaSalle Street...
...like something out of a Quentin Tarantino film.' TONY ZIELINSKI, Milwaukee alderman, on why he wants to revoke the alcohol license of a local Chuck E. Cheese following recent brawls at the children's pizza parlor...
...worked as a dishwasher to pay for college. After graduating from Pepperdine University's law school, he eventually found work as a prosecutor in Cook County, which includes Chicago, frequently handling domestic-abuse cases. He married well; his wife Patti, the daughter of influential Chicago alderman Richard Mell, used her father's political smarts to help Blagojevich win elections - first to Illinois' General Assembly in 1992 then, four years later, to the U. S. House, as the Representative from the Fifth District of Illinois, which includes parts of Chicago's North Side...
...Obama, among others - and a move in the state legislature to start impeachment proceedings, observers don't expect a quick resolution to the scandal. "These calls for Blagojevich to resign, they're very sensible, but you can't force someone to do so," says Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman who now heads the political-science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "Impeachment hearings would take a long time - months - and the call for a special election needs his signature, which the legislature would then have to override his veto. It's not a quick process." And given...
...problem with trying to taint Obama with the label of "Chicago politics" is that most Americans no longer make the association with corruption. "We're not looked at the same way we might have been years ago," says Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman and chair of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "We're not Al Capone's city. We're not the stockyards of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle." These days Chicago is known for blending working-class kitsch - Da Bears and the Cubbies - with cosmopolitan shopping and restaurants on Michigan Avenue...