Chicago City Council - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

The last saloon-keeping member of this group, Paddy Bauler, crowed that his peers “ain’t ready for reform yet!” in the same year that the socialist Leon Despres (“deh-PRAY”) joined it. This group created the sham Ogden Gas Company during an era dominated by Gray Wolves like Johnny De Pow, “Bathhouse John,” and Hinky Dink Kenna. In 2003, this governmental body and (-5[1])the FAA (15[1])were not informed before the overnight bulldozing of an airport. (-5[1])Members of this body (-5[1])control zoning (15[1])via a “privilege” (15[2])or “prerogative” (15[3])that “goo-goos” have called to eliminate. (*) 29 members of this body (10[1])led by “Slow Eddie” Burke and “Fast Eddie” Vrdolyak (10[1])blocked (10[1])progressive appointments in a 1980s series of “wars” (10[1])named for this body. In this body, 50 wards are represented by alderpersons. (10[1])For 10 points, what body sparred with Harold Washington and both Richard Daleys (10[1]-5[1])as the legislative branch of the “Second City”? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Chicago City Council [accept phrases like Chicago’s council; accept Chicago’s board of aldermen or alderpersons until “alderpersons” is read; prompt on Chicago government or Chicago’s legislature; prompt on the council or Council Wars by asking “of what city?”; prompt on alderpersons or aldermen until “alderpersons” is read by asking “of what city?”] (Richard M. Daley bulldozed Meigs Field Airport. “Good government guys” have opposed aldermanic privilege/prerogative.)

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Summary


2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	15	100%	47%	27%	100.40

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Sam Bailey	The Oldest Men in the World	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	59	-5
Matt Lafer	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	61	15
Christopher Sims	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	71	-5
Kenji Shimizu	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	LMM's LLM MLM	75	-5
Matt Weiner	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	77	15
Aidan Mehigan	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	80	15
Naveed Chowdhury	Lisan al-Quib	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	80	15
Ryan Rosenberg	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	82	15
Dylan Minarik	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	82	15
Henry Atkins	The Empire Bikes Back	Punished "Venom" BHSU	82	15
Joel Miles	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	The Oldest Men in the World	93	10
Jaskaran Singh	The Dyatlov Passement incident	BHSU B	102	10
Nathaniel Hull	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	We Need New Names	103	10
Fred Garvey	Les Missourables	The Jeam Team	111	10
Colin Stewart	var merchants	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	124	10
Arya Karthik	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	137	-5
Matt Jackson	LMM's LLM MLM	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	137	10
Alexander Nero	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	146	10
Emma Victoria Byron	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	146	10