One day there will be a general rebellion against the longtime super-corrupt way of politics in Chicago.

I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet, but I think it's too ingrained there for even our social media connected world to get changed right now.

Like, I know that all politics have a degree of corruption, but Chicago is a whole different animal.

At some point the mainstream media will finally catch on and expose the whole thing. Amazingly, despite what is pretty much a century of mass corruption there, the media has given it surprisingly little coverage -- especially recently when social media could spread outrage about the situation much quicker than before.

Maybe it will take a major scandal, but we already had the Blagojevich thing, and Chicago escaped unscathed (likely because it was associated with Illinois, and not Chicago specifically). But make no mistake about it, Blagojevich learned his corrupt ways from a longtime exposure to Chicago politics.

I'm just wondering when the public will finally stand up, say "enough is enough", throw the corrupt bums out of office (or imprison them), and elect honest politicians there for once.

Nowhere is "you can't fight city hall" more true than Chicago.

I also wonder if the mainstream media doesn't focus on Chicago's corruption because it's been run by Democrats forever. I have to think if this was Republican-based corruption, this would have been a huge ongoing story a long time ago.

I'm actually surprised that Barack Obama was never influenced by the city's corruption during his time in politics there. I disagree with Obama politically and think he's a crappy leader, but I admit that he's mostly honest and isn't corrupt.