Tea and Vitriol

Chicago is the third largest city in the United States. It used to be the second largest until the city's penchant for murder and violence reduced Chicago's population to third place. Mind you, Chicago is a place where there is proof of life after death. People who have been dead for years vote in presidential elections! That's how John F. Kennedy won the presidential election of 1960, courtesy of then Mayor Daley. "If a body meet a body..." For over a hundred years, well before Al Capone called it "home," Chicago was a prime example of crime, violence, homicide and political corruption, the subject of films and books evoking memories od gangland slayings, bootlegging, machine guns and political graft and payoffs. It has also been under firm Democratic control since that time. Some things never change. However, the mayoral election of 2019 made history. Chicago elected its first Black, woman, Lesbian mayor. There is nothing wrong with electing anyone of