Tribune Columnist John Kass explains how they do it in Chi-Town:
So the Chicago Way hauled off and slapped the U.S. Senate in the face—one of those backhands with the knuckles to unsuspecting lips—and guess who blinked?
It wasn't Chicago.
It was the Senate.
Get used to it, America. And it won't be the last time either.
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Now Tombstone has President-elect Barack Obama behind him, muscling Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid in a phone call earlier in the week. So much for transcending the old politics.
So I always thought "The Chicago Way" was "you pull a knife, you pull a gun, they send one of your friends to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue." But according to Kass, whose been a reporter in Chicago for years, "The Chicago Way" amounts to a stern phone call. Which is all kind of disappointing.
-- A. Serwer
