Will he or won’t he? Within Chicago political circles, that’s the question on everybody’s mind. True to form, the sometimes inscrutable Richard M. Daley hasn’t said one way or another whether he’s going to seek a seventh term next year. But read the tea leaves and you’ll see that, despite the year from hell in … Read more
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The retired Chicago businessman Louis Susman recently became the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, an appointment widely regarded as the prize for his ferocious fundraising on behalf of the Obama campaign. Derided by the British press as the “vacuum cleaner,” Susman is only the most prominent example of a continuing—and questionable—American tradition
