Chicago Adult Entertainment: Did You Hear the One About the Illinois Primary…?

Those of us from Illinois know better.  Madness?  Oh, tosh, that wasn’t madness.  It was business as usual.  Illinois politics has been a popular form of entertainment before even turn-of-the-century alderman Bathhouse John Coughlin and Hinky Dink Kenna ran the First Ward.  (Their annual ball was a major political fundraiser that made Mardi Gras look like a cotillion.  Its mingling attendees were gamblers, prostitutes, local businessmen, the local mob and politicians, and it filled the Chicago Coliseum.)
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A few years back, Rose Laws was a big-time madam in Chicago, with mob ties.  (There’s something about prostitutes and Chicago politics that just seems a well-blended match.)  Her appointments book showed high-profile clients from business, sports, politics, judges, high society, and so much more.   In 2002, she was convicted to 22 months in federal prison.  Her mob protector, Michael “Jaws” Giorango, was found guilty of involvement in a national prostitution ring and got six months in jail.

See the full article from “Salon (blog)”