Chicago rebuilt machine, Fed says

The Chicago Tribune reports:

The upcoming corruption trial of Mayor Richard M. Daley's former patronage chief will focus on an idea widely consigned to the city's past--the Chicago political machine.

Before charges were leveled last year against Daley aide Robert Sorich and three other city officials, many observers of city politics had long ago pronounced the death of machine-style politics. But in the Sorich trial, which begins Wednesday, federal prosecutors are poised to call dozens of witnesses from City Hall to describe a revived model of the Democratic machine.

Patrick Fitzgerald's full time job.