In the last ten days the following have been reported in the two Chicago daily newspapers;

A city worker had a swimming pool built at his house with cement to be used for runway expansion at O’Hare.

The same city worker-mobster-had a Com Ed generator dispatched to said poolhouse during the August power failures at city expense. The generator was supposed to be sent to O’Hare for backup power.

The Governor is being investigated for having his house renovated by Tony Rezko. The Governor bought an old home in a gentrifing neighborhood and rehabbed the home. The Governor cannot produce documentation that proves that he paid for the renovations. Not even a cancelled check!

The hometown presidential candidate secured a grant for $100,000 from the FHA to built a park in an underserved neighborhood. They erected a cheesy prefab gazebo-probably from Menards-and absconded with the rest of the cash. Nobody knows where it is, watch the video on the Sun Times web page, it is infuriating.

There have been approximatley 2600 murders in Chicago since the Iraq war began, and approximately 7,000 non-lethal shootings in the same period.
The shootings are hard to verify because the police are being pressured to underreport shootings.

I am astonished that the national media does not cover any of the above.

When Obama was questioned about the culture of corruption he said that sometimes it gives him “pause”

Unbelievable!