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Chicago Twitter: What are the weirdest Illinois/Chicago political scandals of the 2000s? I'm talking like fictional goat meat companies, aldermen climbing roofs to ask pastors for cash, Downton Abbey office replicas. I want real Hey Marthas, to go back to my newspaper roots.
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For background, I'm giving a talk on Chicago politics at a conference this weekend and want to make sure there aren't any particularly thunderstriking scandals I had forgotten about.
18 minutes to speech time, folks. Thanks to everyone who helped recall some shady shit I forgot.
Due to several people asking (ok, it was just @AlisonTrue, but let me have this), here’s my speech. Here’s hoping I have all my allegedlys in the right spots.
The scribble on the first page was a quote I liked from DCASE’s Tim Samuelson’s speech.
Not a scandal, but I loved that Jesse White hid for a decade years that Gov. Ogilvie's widow stopped driving so no one would fight over who got to have her license plate number: 1
Does anyone know who has Illinois license plate 1 now? Last I heard of it was in 2012 when Pat Quinn wanted to auction it off to pay for veterans services.
