Some local polling results in Chicago

The Beachwood Reporter

The [Tuesday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes /

Fun with numbers, via a Tribune graphic on Sunday:

* The 21st Ward delivered the most votes for Obama: 30,059. Alderman: Howard Brookins.

* The 12th Ward delivered the least votes for Obama: 6,188. Alderman: George Cardenas.

* The 41st Ward delivered the most votes for McCain: 11,858. Alderman: Brian Doherty, the council's lone Republican.

* The 17th Ward delivered the least votes for McCain: 95. Alderman: Latasha Thomas.

Yes, that's right. Just 95 people in the 17th Ward voted for John McCain. Voting for Obama: 23,379.

* McCain didn't win a single Chicago ward, which is unsurprising, but still interesting to note. He came closest in the 41st, of course (15,096 to 11,858 for Obama).

* McCain won the following Cook County Townships: Barrington, Lemont, and Orland.

* Thornton Township cast the most votes in Cook County for Obama: 67,406 (9,686 for McCain).

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"Having gone over the numbers several times, I still can't get over the rock-solid support black Chicago gave President-elect Barack Obama in Tuesday's elections," Ben Joravsky writes. "The pollsters coming in to the election predicted Obama would win at least 90 percent of the black vote nationwide. But in Chicago it was over 99 percent - at least in the five wards that are almost 100 percent black. To be exact, he won 99.27 percent of the vote in the 6th Ward, 99.19 percent in the 8th, 99.24 percent in the 21st, 99.21 percent in the 24th, and 99.40 percent in the 34th."

Boss Hogs
"You may think a Cook County commissioner is well paid at $85,000 dollars a year," Dane Placko reports. "But now, Fox Chicago News reveals how some commissioners are giving themselves a back-door pay raise."

This is the first of a two-part series; the conclusion is tonight.

Fox has also posted the expense reports of county commissioners; you can get there through the link above.

Memory Hole
The Sun-Times said in an editorial on Monday that "We worry about Mayor Daley's memory."

Maybe it ought to worry about its own.

The paper, reacting to the mayor's convenient memory lapses when it comes to untoward business being conducted in his name, cautions that Daley "should remember one critical fact. If they get the brush-off too many times, voters don't forget."

Apparently, as pointed out in a letter to the editor today (second item), we haven't reached "one too many times" yet after 19 years of Daley rule. And neither has the Sun-Times, which will undoubtedly continue endorsing Daley just as it has in the past.