CHICAGO - While the Chicago Cubs have yet to win a World Series, it's been only 113 years since Chicago was dominated by Republicans, and that's something that should encourage Chicago Republicans.
Chris Cleveland, spokesman for today's Chicago GOP, said finding this historical treasure reviewing the April 3, 1900 Republican landslide win in the New York Times' archives made him smile:
A Chicago City Council dominated by Republicans - difficult to fathom in 2013, isn't it? But, as the story says, there were also some notable Democrat "characters" nicknamed "Bathhouse" and "Hinkey Dink" -