The big onion awards: our seventh annual celebration of greed, sloth, and exceptional idiocy by the people whose salaries you pay
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Examples of greed, laziness and incompetence among public officials in Chicago, IL, are presented. They include the watching of pornographic films by members of the Cary Fire Department.
Publication Name: Chicago
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0362-4595
Year: 2001
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The big onion awards! Our third annual celebration of greed, sloth and exceptional idiocy by the people whose salaries you pay
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Chicago's name came from a Native America word for the wild, bad-smelling onions which one grew there. Some of the Big Onion-winning gaffes by Illinois politicians in 1996 included the visit of US Sen Carol Moseley-Braun to the dictator of Nigeria, and a narcotics judge arrested for marijuana possession.
Publication Name: Chicago
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0362-4595
Year: 1997
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The Big Onion Awards: our fourth annual celebration of greed, sloth, and exceptional idiocy by the people whose salaries you pay
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The follies and abuses committed by various civic leaders of Chicago are lampooned through anecdotes and caricatures. City councilman Jesse J. Evans righteously claimed innocence to bribery charges and went on a hunger strike until he was sentenced to prison.
Publication Name: Chicago
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0362-4595
Year: 1998
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