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Anybody out there understand why corruption is so deep and widespread in Chicago? I spent two years there in the mid-Eighties as a seminarian at Loyola and for the life of me I could not understand Chicago. Taxes are high. State taxes are high. I still cannot imagine how anyone could afford to do business there, but they do. I assume that graft becomes part of the cost of doing business in Chicago.

And the entitlement mentality has deep roots there. Not just in the South Side of Chicago.

How does an entire culture become so tolerant of crime and crookedness? Even the people who are not involved in it seem to accept it without much protest.