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.

Castle.

Here you get him.

He pulls a knife.

You pull a gun.

He sends one of yours to the hospital.

You say one of his to the morgue.

That's a fish your pack away.

As promised, Charles Lipson is our guest.

Charles Lipson, the Professor Emeritus, at the University of Chicago, the Ritzman Chair,

and our friend, good friend of ours. And I have a question for him.

Jeff Carlin is here again, as always. Jeff is the executive producer at WGN Radio.

And me, I'm John Cass, your friendly conservative, doesn't like to make waves or back no losers.

But I'm, you know, plotting along writing my columns for John Cass News, and I hope you

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