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<i>WINDY CITY</i>
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<i>A Novel of Politics</i>
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<i>By Scott Simon</i>
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<i><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Random+House+Inc.?tid=informline" target="">Random House</a></i><i>. 419 pp. $25</i>
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The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Chicago?tid=informline" target="">Chicago</a> metropolitan area, with a total population of about 9 million people, is now home to more than half a million Mexicans. Another 130,000 residents come from <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Poland?tid=informline" target="">Poland</a>, while 70,000 are originally from <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/India?tid=informline" target="">India</a> and 60,000 from <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Philippines?tid=informline" target="">the Philippines</a>. The metro area also supports significant immigrant populations from <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Italy?tid=informline" target="">Italy</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/South+Korea?tid=informline" target="">South Korea</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Ethiopia?tid=informline" target="">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Iran?tid=informline" target="">Iran</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Guatemala?tid=informline" target="">Guatemala</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Nigeria?tid=informline" target="">Nigeria</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Syria?tid=informline" target="">Syria</a> and who knows how many other far-flung countries of the world. Obviously, to call such a citizenry &quot;diverse&quot; would be to flirt with massive understatement. But as Scott Simon demonstrates in <i>Windy City</i>, his comic but sneakily affecting novel about Chicago politics, all of these wildly assorted peoples have one thing in common: When their trash isn't picked up or their streets aren't plowed, they don't complain to their imam or their guru or their shaman; they complain to their local alderman.
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The rich multiculturalism of the American city is not a new phenomenon, and it has hardly gone unnoticed in recent fiction. Rarely, however, has it been depicted with such unabashed affection as in <i>Windy City</i>, a book spacious enough to accommodate a Chinese-Salvadoran wedding, a Baptist church service and a banquet at the Krivas Museum of Lithuanian Civilization.
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The plot centers on Sundaran &quot;Sunny&quot; Roopini, the Indian-born alderman from the 48th Ward, who must act as interim mayor when the city's real mayor is found dead in his office, poisoned by a nicotine-laced pizza. No one has any idea who killed the chief executive, who was a charismatic African American dynamo of Rabelaisian appetites. But this proves to be a matter of secondary importance in the novel. More urgent by far, at least to the 50 aldermen who make up the City Council, is the question of who will become the great man's successor. With representatives of so many constituencies competing for power, the political maneuvering soon threatens to get out of hand, and it's all that Sunny Roopini can do to keep City Hall from plunging into outright civil war.
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Scott Simon (host of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/National+Public+Radio+Inc.?tid=informline" target="">NPR</a>'s &quot;Weekend Edition&quot; and author of the novel <i>Pretty Birds</i>) is clearly infatuated with Chicago, and the zeal with which he celebrates the city, warts and all, is hard to resist. His book is larded with insider bonus features that hard-core Chicago aficionados will delight in, whether it's a blow-by-blow description of how Mexican chilaquiles are made or a knowing dissertation on the agony of the long Chicago winter.
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Simon's take on the city's aldermen, whom he describes as &quot;the comic relief of politics,&quot; is particularly amusing. Relegated to the minor leagues of American government, these intrepid eccentrics nonetheless pursue their traffic lights, community centers and graft opportunities with all the passionate intensity of big-time pols, asserting themselves &quot;desperately and gracelessly, like ducks trying to make love to a football.&quot; A typical aldermanic philosophy of government? &quot;You can't be a leader,&quot; one of them insists to a recalcitrant colleague, &quot;unless you go along with the majority!&quot;
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<i>Windy City</i> is also well-served by Simon's choice of hero. Interim Mayor Roopini is an immensely appealing figure -- witty and unfailingly generous in spirit, despite having recently lost his wife under tragic circumstances. Now the single father of two affectionate but keenly suffering young daughters, Sunny must steer his family through the shoals of grief even as he's trying to do the same for the traumatized city. And if his occasional flights of rhetorical brilliance owe perhaps a bit too much to television's &quot;The West Wing&quot; -- verbal set pieces too clever and elaborate to be credible as spontaneous speech -- I hasten to point out that the improbable eloquence of a protagonist is one of the easier flaws in a novel to excuse.
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Whether one can so readily forgive the implausibility of the book's denouement is another question. In real-world Chicago, after all, the city's warring ethnic and racial factions aren't quite as cooperative as they are in Simon's kinder, gentler version. But comic novels often have something of the fairy tale about them. And <i>Windy City</i>, for all its emphasis on the sausage-factory venality of big-city politics, seems intended mainly as a big, sloppy valentine to the cultural jambalaya that is 21st-century Chicago. The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Second+City+Inc.?tid=informline" target="">Second City</a> has taken a lot of abuse in its day, from writers as various as <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Rudyard+Kipling?tid=informline" target="">Rudyard Kipling</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Oscar+Wilde?tid=informline" target="">Oscar Wilde</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Norman+Mailer?tid=informline" target="">Norman Mailer</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Dave+Barry?tid=informline" target="">Dave Barry</a>. It's good to see the old place shamelessly flattered for a change. *
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<i>Gary Krist is the author of five books of fiction and </i><i>the nonfiction narrative &quot;The White Cascade.&quot; </i><i>He is currently working on a book about Chicago </i><i>after World War I.</i>
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{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030801550.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"\'Naked City\' Writer Malvin Wald Dies", kicker:"", headline:"\'Naked City\' Writer Malvin Wald Dies", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"The Associated Press", timestamp:"March 8, 2008 4:11 PM", blurb:"LOS ANGELES -- Malvin Wald, a screenwriter who was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1948 movie \"The Naked City,\" has died at 90.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
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{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030700971.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Rap Opportunity, Only Just Across El Rio Potomac", kicker:"", headline:"Rap Opportunity, Only Just Across El Rio Potomac", subheadline:"", byline:"By David Montgomery", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"March 7, 2008 7:06 AM", blurb:"It\'s an American dream -- the dream of young tattooed men who jump in a car, crank up the stereo, drive like hell to a recording studio, lay down killer tracks for their very own CD -- a CD that in no time will be blasting from big speakers in cars and clubs around the country.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030703781.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Juanes Preaches Peace on Tour in US", kicker:"", headline:"Juanes Preaches Peace on Tour in US", subheadline:"", byline:"By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS", source:"The Associated Press", timestamp:"March 7, 2008 11:12 PM", blurb:"NEW YORK -- Juanes kicked off the U.S. leg of his world tour at Madison Square Garden, bringing a message of peace and a giddy enthusiasm to be performing in \"the temple of music.\"", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030701374.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Rick Steves, Through the Front Door", kicker:"WE\'RE JUST ASKING", headline:"Rick Steves, Through the Front Door", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"March 7, 2008 10:12 AM", blurb:"Guidebook czar Rick Steves never met a European country he didn\'t like. ", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030701371.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Las Vegas\'s Center Bars: A Different Sort of Table Game", kicker:"GOOD LIBATIONS", headline:"Las Vegas\'s Center Bars: A Different Sort of Table Game", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"March 7, 2008 10:02 AM", blurb:"Worked up a thirst while gambling? Sidle up to Sin City\'s center bars.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030701348.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"What\'s the Deal?", kicker:"", headline:"What\'s the Deal?", subheadline:"The week\'s best travel bargains around the globe, by land, sea and air.", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"March 7, 2008 10:10 AM", blurb:"The week\'s best travel bargains around the globe, by land, sea and air.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030701349.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Spring Break for the Whoooole Family", kicker:"", headline:"Spring Break for the Whoooole Family", subheadline:"How to keep relatives from ages 5 to 79 happy? Try Mexico\'s west coast.", byline:"By Brigid Schulte", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"March 7, 2008 10:10 AM", blurb:"How to keep relatives from ages 5 to 79 happy? Try Mexico\'s west coast.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503640.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"The Dark Market Of \'Murderabilia\'", kicker:"", headline:"The Dark Market Of \'Murderabilia\'", subheadline:"Online Memento Traders Turn People\'s Fascination With Killers Into a Questionable Livelihood", byline:"By Neely Tucker", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"March 5, 2008 10:16 PM", blurb:"There is a reason we have prisons. One of them is to keep people like Hadden Clark far, far away from the rest of us.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030701034.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"For Frida Kahlo, It\'s All A One-Woman Show, With Herself as Artist and Subject", kicker:"", headline:"For Frida Kahlo, It\'s All A One-Woman Show, With Herself as Artist and Subject", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"March 7, 2008 7:08 AM", blurb:"There aren\'t many artists whose reputations have yo-yo\'d like Frida Kahlo\'s.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/03/AR2008030303277.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"The Ballot Brawl of 1924", kicker:"", headline:"The Ballot Brawl of 1924", subheadline:"Relive the Thrilling Days of Yesteryear, at the Democrats\' Deadlocked Convention", byline:"By Peter Carlson", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"March 3, 2008 10:09 PM", blurb:"Those TV yappers are in a tizzy about the upcoming Democratic convention. They keep jibber-jabbering about how neither Clinton nor Obama will have enough delegates to win the presidential nomination and they\'ll need to woo the high-powered superdelegates. They keep yakking about a deadlocked...", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
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{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030602958.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Crying Wolf", kicker:"CULTURAL AFFAIRS", headline:"Crying Wolf", subheadline:"A law professor argues that it\'s dangerous to make unfounded claims of racism.", byline:"Reviewed by Daniel J. Sharfstein", source:"", timestamp:"March 6, 2008 5:32 PM", blurb:"THE RACE CARD How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse By Richard Thompson Ford. ", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030703320.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Obama Adviser Quits Over \'Off the Record\' Crack at Clinton", kicker:"", headline:"Obama Adviser Quits Over \'Off the Record\' Crack at Clinton", subheadline:"", byline:"By Howard Kurtz", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"March 7, 2008 9:48 PM", blurb:"How does a Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author manage to blow up her brief political consulting career over the use of the phrase \"off the record\"?", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030602800.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Campaign Watch", kicker:"POLITICS", headline:"Campaign Watch", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"March 6, 2008 5:11 PM", blurb:"Writing books about a fast-moving presidential campaign can be risky. Some may be pronounced WOA (wrong on arrival).", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
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{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020103386.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"\'Hannah Montana\' In 3-D, Keeping It One-Dimensional", kicker:"Movies", headline:"\'Hannah Montana\' In 3-D, Keeping It One-Dimensional", subheadline:"", byline:"By Adam Bernstein", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"February 1, 2008 9:54 PM", blurb:"Clearly, we were expecting too much. Fifteen lousy bucks for \"Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert 3-D\" and you still learn nothing about sucrose-charged sprite Cyrus and her rock-star alter ego. You get no sense of her life as the daughter of country entertainer Billy Ray ...", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030602587.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"The Master", kicker:"", headline:"The Master", subheadline:"Two journalists argue that Bush has failed to learn Reagan\'s lessons.", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"March 6, 2008 4:38 PM", blurb:"REAGAN\'S DISCIPLE George W. Bush\'s Troubled Quest For a Presidential Legacy By Lou Cannon and Carl M. Cannon", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030700935.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"He Knows Airports From ATL to ZRH", kicker:"THE BACK STORY", headline:"He Knows Airports From ATL to ZRH", subheadline:"In what may be the smallest art gallery in the United States, you can discover the whole world. Or at least its airport terminals. Atlanta, Berlin, Vilnius, Bangkok, Calgary -- all up there on the walls of Curator\'s Office in Washington. Charles Cohan, a 47-year-old printmaker and art professor based in Hawaii, has transformed diagrams of these terminals and 43 others into a room-filling installat", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"March 7, 2008 7:06 AM", blurb:"HOW DO YOU GET YOUR IMAGES OF AIRPORT TERMINALS? The images initially started being generated from the diagrams at the back of in-flight magazines -- I was spending too much time on airplanes. Once I got a critical mass of those, I then started going to the Internet.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
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{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030803082.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Jackie Chan honors late parents in Australia", kicker:"", headline:"Jackie Chan honors late parents in Australia", subheadline:"", byline:"By James Grubel", source:"Reuters", timestamp:"March 8, 2008 10:43 PM", blurb:"CANBERRA (Reuters) - Hong Kong-born action film star Jackie Chan paid tribute to his late parents and his Australian roots on Sunday by funding a new science education centre at the country\'s top cancer research institution.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030602581.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Southern Man", kicker:"POLITICS | BIOGRAPHY", headline:"Southern Man", subheadline:"Jesse Helms was an archetype. Now is he an artifact?", byline:"Reviewed by Michael Skube", source:"", timestamp:"March 6, 2008 4:38 PM", blurb:"RIGHTEOUS WARRIOR Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism By William A. Link", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030602668.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Water Rising", kicker:"FICTION", headline:"Water Rising", subheadline:"A family struggles to survive on a Mississippi farm after World War II.", byline:"Reviewed by Ron Charles", source:"", timestamp:"March 6, 2008 4:37 PM", blurb:"MUDBOUND By Hillary Jordan", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030602663.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Watch Out, New York", kicker:"", headline:"Watch Out, New York", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"March 6, 2008 4:46 PM", blurb:"MONSTER, 1959 By David Maine", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603897.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"\'Miss Pettigrew\': A Flick to Brighten Anyone\'s Day", kicker:"Movies", headline:"\'Miss Pettigrew\': A Flick to Brighten Anyone\'s Day", subheadline:"", byline:"By Ann Hornaday", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"March 6, 2008 10:04 PM", blurb:"Dad, you can go to the movies again. It\'s been a tough season at the multiplex for my father. He\'s a good man, a retired widower who has experienced the sacrifice, pain and loss that inevitably come with living for 70-plus years. In other words, he\'s earned the right not to watch Anton Chigurh blow...", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/12/AR2008021201104.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Lowest Published Airfares From Washington Airports", kicker:"", headline:"Lowest Published Airfares From Washington Airports", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"February 12, 2008 11:40 AM", blurb:"The following are the lowest published 21-day advance round-trip airfares from the three Washington-area airports to 20 domestic destinations. ", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030402388.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"The Defense\'s Unrest", kicker:"New Series", headline:"The Defense\'s Unrest", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"March 4, 2008 7:22 PM", blurb:"Mondays at 8 p.m. on Fox Basic story: Elizabeth Canterbury (Julianna Margulies, right) is a defense lawyer -- a very good one -- who often takes the side of the underdog. And once she\'s convinced her client is innocent, she follows her own law: Do whatever it takes to win. That may mean bending the...", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603007.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Poetic Staying Power", kicker:"POET\'S CHOICE", headline:"Poetic Staying Power", subheadline:"", byline:"By Mary Karr", source:"", timestamp:"March 6, 2008 5:46 PM", blurb:"Poetry, Philip Larkin once said, is a machine made of words: The reader puts the penny of her attention into the slot and pulls the handle; out comes a feeling. Which is true of any art form, no?", commentcount:"", commenturl:""}]
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