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| node: | The Story Behind the Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar |
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We started getting phone calls from businesses that were complaining about having to pay a steady stream of inspectors that come into the restaurants and bars looking for payoffs to ignore city violations. [But] we couldn’t get anybody to go on the record.
Corruption was an everyday thing. It is in any city, but in Chicago we perfected many methods of it over the years.
She figured the only way to get the story would be to get inside the system. So she convinced her paper to buy a bar.
We started getting phone calls from businesses that were complaining about having to pay a steady stream of inspectors that come into the restaurants and bars looking for payoffs to ignore city violations. [But] we couldn’t get anybody to go on the record.
Corruption was an everyday thing. It is in any city, but in Chicago we perfected many methods of it over the years.
She figured the only way to get the story would be to get inside the system. So she convinced her paper to buy a bar.