You've got to hand it to Chicago. Not only is it so corrupt that nobody dares fight the corruption for fear of becoming part of the aggregate in a concrete building foundation, but even the sportswriters are driven to paroxysms of disgust and flights of literary acrobatics. From the Sun-Times today:
"The City of Chicago, led by Mayor Daley and a vast and tumorous army of aldermen and bagmen and yesmen and opportunists and spineless, parasitic political-machine halfwits of forms never seen outside the roiling cesspool of governmental slop-trough greed, has proven itself unworthy of something as potentially delicious and fulfilling as the 2016 Olympic Games..."
-- Ed Huntress