Chicago is best known city in America for a long history of crooked politics. NJ and FLa are not cities and I have spend time and done business in both states (and on a national basis) and can say the corruption in chicago stood out many times over compared to Florida, even more than NY City where I lived and worked for a while.
Last governor and many Chicago governors illustrate the point and that's just the TIP of the crooked iceberg in Chicago.
I like Chicago and the lake, etc ... but it is what it is ... the American city with the longest record of corruption of any.
Rob