# What is "Chicago Politics"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chicago-politics/472248>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 11, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chicago-politics/472248 "2008-11-11T21:30:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chicago-politics/472248/21 "2008-11-12T18:38:06Z")

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> [@WormTheRed](#):
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> I´m missing the scam here. Couldn’t the guy going in just use the empty ballot he picks up instead? (and pick up two ballots so he’d still have a blank one for the campaign worker)

The guy going in is only going to be allowed to pick up one blank ballot inside, not two.

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chicago-politics/472248/22 "2008-11-12T18:55:21Z")

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> [@WarmNPrickly](#):
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> The fact is, the airport was a sham for most people. When Daley dug it up under cover of darkness, most people said “good riddance”. I don’t live there anymore, but it’s sure what I thought.

A sham? How? It was an airport for well over 50 years and was the busiest single-runway airport in the US. I know of no one who hated the place and closing it to stop “terrorists” is pure bullshit (any terrorist that could fly a plane to Meigs Field can fly to other nearby city airports and veer off course to crash into anything quite easily before anyone could do a damn thing about it).

It was sort of a city icon and as noted was the starting airport in Microsoft’s Flight Simulator so it was even recognized world wide.

Closing it added something like 20 acres to a park over 300 acres in size. It makes no notable difference in the usability of Grant Park at all. It could disappear entirely tomorrow and I doubt many people would even notice.

Besides, it was kinda cool seeing planes fly down the lakefront to land there.

I am no pilot and have only known one person personally to ever use the airport so I have no dog in this fight except to say I think most Chicagoans liked it. Pretty sure Daley did it to piss off Springfield as it was easiest for those downstate in the state capital to fly to Meigs. Not 100% on that though (heard it somewhere so take with a very large grain of salt).

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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chicago-politics/472248/23 "2008-11-12T19:45:47Z")

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> [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](#):
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> I believe the point is for the voter to prove he voted for the preferred candidate.

Hence picking up an extra…

> [@Telemark](#):
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> Most polling stations control access to blank ballots. You can’t just pick up two of them.

> [@robby](#):
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> The guy going in is only going to be allowed to pick up one blank ballot inside, not two.

…which you the could not do. I see.

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