My mother's father was a ward something in Chicago. I never really paid attention because I was a kid.
But I know he was a Democratic Party apparatchik and got a job as a court bailiff in the Daly Building downtown, maybe as a reward for political something.
Daly himself was buried just down the street from where I grew up ages 0-9:
We lived on Lombard, and Daly was buried in Holy Sepulchre where my dad's parents and many aunts and uncles are.
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