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Toledo Escorts: WTOL.com, Toledo’s News Leader, News 11 | Ill. town’s ex-mayor’s return …
February 21, 2010 | | Leave a Comment
But that wasn’t the only problem, critics say. Dominick, a hefty ex-cop who served on the Cicero force for years, also has found jobs for a number of his relatives on the town payroll, including a son who works as the human resources director.
“I think they haven’t really changed since the Al Capone era in their approach to government and politics and civic decency,” says Andy Shaw, head of Chicago’s Better Government Association. “This is the town that time forgot.”
Not that some things haven’t changed.
Scantily clad prostitutes no longer saunter in the neon haze outside the mob-connected strip joints that flourished along Cicero Avenue in the 1950s and 1960s. Gone are the no-name prize fighters who once slugged it out in a little arena in a cloud of colored smoke and flickering strobe lights.
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