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.
Don't know what they did with Big Mike, the linebacker drag apparition, but the current Mike cartoon isn't the same person: higher forehead, narrower shoulders, younger, etc. etc.
Of course, they still have residual stupids to harvest so the show must go on.
The original Big Mike must have remains on some underground sacrificial alter somewhere. The original was gettng too fleshy and beefy to foist it off any more, and was probably afraid of the kinetic Barry.
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