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Ahh, more on the Man Behind the Curtain and his friends and relatives.

As previously noted, the man who pull's Daley's strings is Jeremiah Joyce. One columnist or another gets around to explaining this about, oh, every 2 years. Need primary campaign workers? Hundreds are available anywhere in the city if Joyce is willing to order out the troops. Need a contract at, e.g., Navy Pier? Ditto. Cleaning contracts? Paving contracts? Property contracts? Trucking contracts? Joyce, Joyce, Joyce and Joyce. Etc. ad nauseum.

I'm sure any relationship between Jeremiah and the fire chief has been mentioned once or twice in the media over the last few years already. AFAIK, they are cousins or something. Still, I couldn't help but notice one connection I'd never heard. Not only is Eileen Carey his sister in law (AFAIK); not only is the fire department head his brother or cousin or something (AFAIK); but, as it turns out, the downtown district chief (who got off duty, uhm 1/2 hour before the county building fire), is also related to the Chief... and thus to Jeremiah.

Of course, he's got a kid who is a politician (and another who is an ex con). Woo hoo, sound like anyone else in Illinois?

Madigan/Madigan?
Hynes/Hynes?
Mell/Blagoyevich?
Daley/Daley?
and Joyce/Joyce/Joyce/Joyce/Carey. And those are only the ones I've heard about in political office and/or top administrative (or, er, emergency) posts.

Nightclub fires, collapsing porches, burning government buildings... where does it end? Surely not with a, truly, finally, outraged Murphy. I get the feeling Devine had to make a few phone calls to find out how much *outrage* he could express about his near-death experience. But Murphy though. Dead man that he surely almost is, God bless him.

Is this what it takes for someone to quit toeing the line? Do the questions only come once you have to watch them carry your employee's bodies out of their workplace?

Yo, Say Hello For Me. If anyone sees the next Harold please give me a shout so I know where to send the check. Chicago is a frickin national embarrasment. And all Kass can write about is Gryzb now working for Higginbotham. Puh-thetic.

FWIW, all statements are only AFAIK, and not completely verified via, for instance, checking birth certificates and records. I almost guarantee I got something or other wrong in there. But even if I'm only half right, I've had enough. I'm joining my friends in the suburbs, cuz I've had enough.

So, any thoughts on La Grange, Clarendon Hills, Hinsdale or Downers Grove? Aside from them being nice and quiet and having good schools and good train service?

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