Thursday, August 19, 2010

04) The Most Theatrically Corrupt American City


Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
  -Charles Merriam, unsuccessful mayoral candidate in 1911


Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt.
  -Studs Terkel Dick Cavett Show, June 9, 1978
The theme of corruption, politics, and Chicago is hard to shake. I am looking here for an angle as it being the dark side of the American dream,of progress, egalitarianism, populism. The deeper you go the darker it gets, The yang to the yin is difficult to find.
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2 comments:

  1. PURLPOWERAugust 28, 2010 at 2:47 AM

    Hm, all I know about Chicago is that everyone I know who has been there from the UK seems to like it. And Laverne and Shirley was set there. Not sure that's enough yang for ya....

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  2. PURLPOWERAugust 28, 2010 at 2:52 AM

    Bugger. Turns out L&S was set in Milwaukee, 73 miles way from Chicago. I'm useless.

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