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...known as a hands-on boss, had no idea what was going on. "I like him. It's just that he has this blind spot when it comes to corruption. I don't think he ever realizes the seriousness of it," says Joe Moore, a Far North Side alderman who was elected to the city council two years after Daley took office. In recent months Daley has at least tried to appear to be doing business differently. He fired a handful of his top aides, brought in a new chief of staff and proposed that an independent panel handle city...
Since his election in 1983 as Chicago's first black mayor, Democrat Harold Washington has been entangled in an epic feud with the party's long-entrenched regulars, led by Alderman Edward Vrdolyak. The result has been legislative paralysis, with the 21 city council votes that Washington controls more than canceled out by the 29 loyal to Vrdolyak. Last week, however, a federal judge ordered special aldermanic elections on March 18 that will probably narrow the margin and could give the mayor the decisive votes. The balloting could ultimately deliver the coup de grace to Chicago's once formidable Democratic...
...part of her duty as the town's recorder and treasurer; one previous mayor resigned and another pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute it. A grade-school teacher in Bradford for 35 years, Edens had a reputation for being a terror in the classroom-one alderman jokingly swears she used to paddle him-but she's more of a softie than her soldier boss. Working from her airless cubicle at city hall for 18 months, she says she tried to keep the town on course, even started a Yard of the Month beautification program, but admits...
...family ties thicker than political ones? Not in Illinois when a Governor nearing a re-election campaign is pitted against a street-smart ward politico who happens to be his father-in-law. The simmering feud between Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his wife's father, Chicago alderman Dick Mell, reached a boiling point last week. In a press conference, the Governor lashed out at his in-law amid reports that a grand jury is investigating allegations by Mell that Blagojevich's administration traded jobs for campaign contributions. Blagojevich denied the charges and asserted that the investigation was started only...
...follow foreign and art films (eh, to each his own) or haven't consulted TIME.com's daily Cannes entries (shame on you!), the handicapping of the Palme d'Or may seem no more vital or fascinating than the morning line on a race for alderman in Liechtenstein. But it's fun for us over here. And if all the predictions I list below prove to be false when you read our next blog Saturday, you should get a giggle too. The award show, which can often be endearing in its gaucherie, is broadcast across Europe...