The Chicago Machine Lives

The Chicago Tribune reports:

"The machine politics they said were dead are more alive under this guy than they were under his dad," said [James]Sprandel, who retired last year after 27 years with Streets and Sanitation.

City workers who refused to do campaign work or to buy tickets to political fundraisers said they were fired without reason or transferred to work sites across town from their homes.

The Chicago way is an enduring tradition.