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Transcript: 'Windy City,' Simon's Deep Dish on Chicago Politics
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- March 11, 2008
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STEVEN INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
03-11-2008
'Windy City,' Simon's Deep Dish on Chicago Politics
Host: STEVEN INSKEEP
Time 10:00-11:00 AM
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STEVEN INSKEEP, host:
For most of the past half century, the mayor of Chicago has been a man named Richard Daley. Two mayors, father and son, share one of the biggest names in American politics. In a novel about Chicago politics, NPR's Scott Simon aims lower - a good deal lower. He writes of the members of the Chicago city council known by the antique title of alderman.
Describe them please, Scott.
SCOTT SIMON: Most people recognized only a few aldermen by name, but tended to associate almost all of them with a series of traits - alderman ...