Daley loved his city more than he loved anything else (he never left the mostly Irish white working class neighborhood in which he was born - Bridgeport adjacent to the now gone stockyards), and was pretty good at managing it, and keeping the amount of graft needed to grease the wheels within bounds. I was pleased to actually vote for him once. Chicago style politics is interesting because it is relatively non-ideological. It's a business. The Pubs had their own little micro machines at one time; indeed they were still alive in working class Cicero and Berwyn, which as late as the time I lived there, went Pub all the time. Now of course they are Hispanic - and don't.
That's why I referred to it as a brand.....
