What I miss about Chicago

Metro Chicago is my birthplace, and where I lived most of my life (until age 34, when I left for a stint in Tampa, and in 98 (age 40) when I moved to California. - I digress.
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It was Mike Royko, late columnist of all major Chicago papers at one point or another, who got me interested in politics. He had a cynical logic in his writing which never failed to make me snicker, if not laugh out loud. It was a generation earlier, in more ways than one: Daley was 'the man on five' - the mayor's fifth floor office. I speak, of course, of the current Mayor's father - Richard J. Daley. It was a benevolent machine; things got DONE, and things like transit strikes didn't happen.

I have found a writer who will make me pine for Chicago politics.