Let me tell you about the very rich who travel by air differently from you and me. I know. That’s a paraphrase from a Scott Fitzgerald 1926 story. That known story was told some one hundred years ago by The Great Gatsby. Here is how Ernest Hemingway allegedly responded, “Yes, they have more money.” # # # Disclaimer: I’ve under my belt about 2,200 commercial flight boardings. So I got some air travel experience. Commercial aviation is a cattle call designed by

The political history of Chicago is defined by a singular, enduring institution: the Democrat Machine. This system, a complex amalgam of ethnic coalition-building, ecclesiastical hierarchy, and clandestine alliances with organized crime, represented the most sophisticated form of urban governance in the twentieth-century United States. To review the Machine is to examine a socio-political organism that prioritized stability and patronage over ideology, transforming a disparat