“You damned fools. You can either vote for me for mayor or you can go to hell.”

— John Wentworth

Quoted in Chicago Magazine, June 2006 http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2006/The-Perfect-Mayor/

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American newspaper editor and politician 1815–1888

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