Patronage in Illinois, or Shakman Is Dead, Long Live Shakman
It's the end of an era. Last week, according to <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-rahm-emanuel-shak…; target="”_blank”">an
article in the Chicago <i>Tribune</i></a><i>,</i> a federal
magistrate declared that Chicago was released from the 1972 Shakman
consent decree, which was supposed to end patronage (for a long