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The wards were run by Democratic political bosses. If your ward didn't vote for and contribute to the machine your ward didn't get services from the city. The snow wasn't plowed, the garbage wasn't picked up, the police & fire departments were slow to respond. Then to get a job with the city you had to vote for and contribute to the machine. If people do that for 70 years or so it becomes a habit. That is why 90% of the wards became and stayed Democrats.
Originally Posted by Jeffery J. Haas
And you know what? Last time Karen and I went up to Chicago, we saw HELP WANTED and NOW HIRING signs ALL over the stinking place. That was in 2015.
I was talking about how Chicago was back in the 1940's not in 2015.
Glad you mentioned the 1940's because Karen's father was hesitant about settling down in McHenry, IL until he walked by a factory on Rt 121 and a shop steward appeared in the doorway asking if he'd like a high paying job.
"How high are we talking?", asked Bob Mitchell...the answer was roughly double what Bob had been making down in Lepanto, Arkansas where he grew up. And it was a plant that was manufacturing a newfangled thing called a central air conditioner, which was exactly what he had gone to school for down in Arkansas.
Bob Mitchell spent the next thirty some-odd years raising his family in McHenry. All in all I'd say that the political machine up there did pretty good by the folks who lived there.
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