Yes, the I-80 thing does exist here in Illinois.  But chicago is like the elephant (no pun intended) in the room.  All the cities in the state still don't have the population numbers of chicago.  That's the main tax base of this state.  sometimes some people in Chicago treat us downstaters like we were rubes.  But I have many friends from Chicago who don't feel like that at all.  There is a lot of corruption in DuPage county as well as Cook county so most likely the politicians of both sides can't entirely blame Mayor Daley.