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This is how old I am, everyone.

You probably don't remember this, but there was a show where the bookcase, the bookends,

was a dwarf or elf. The elf would be sitting cross-legged, green tights, and so on, holding

the books up, and then he would stand up and sit down at a chair and begin to read to children.

Is that the story time that Jeff has in mind?

I don't know.

I'm John Cass, editor of John Cass News.

Jeff Carlin is here, as always, my good friend, colleague, WGN, executive producer,

and the man who really came up with the idea for the Chicago Way podcast. And where are you?

As we engaged in story time, as I'm thinking about the elf and green sleeves, you're on the

Chicago Way podcast on WGN Plus.

So this is a guy who lives high on the hog, and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude

to power.

And it is, it's the Chicago way, absolutely.

The Chicago Way is a deep cultural phenomenon. It's the Chicago Way. The Chicago Way, that's the focus.

In a tower by the river, There lived a man.

There was a man who took a stand.

With pen and paper in his hand.

Defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword.

No escape from his ink lasso in a tower by the river.

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