But the mentally ill don't have an army of lobbyists and clout-heavy executives making hefty campaign contributions.
Other offices, especially those held by veteran, clout-heavy aldermen, have multiple chambers, extra storage spaces and exterior windows.
Two of those ideas would affect the city's hoisting engineers, who operate heavy machinery and who belong to the clout-heavy International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150.
We might have convened, too, at our dying, clout-heavy racetracks, which could also get slots, in legislation that Gov. Pat Quinn has threatened to veto.
Although he has stayed out of the 45th Ward race, Mr. Emanuel endorsed Mr. Rice as well as Timothy Cullerton, another clout-heavy council incumbent, in a runoff fight in the 38th Ward.
"A friend of mine in Beverly called me and he said he was wondering if it even snowed there" because the streets of the clout-heavy 19th Ward were cleared so quickly, Mr. Sawyer said, chuckling.
William Daley, a co-chairman of the Joffrey board of trustees, is a former Cabinet member in the Clinton administration and clout-heavy brother of Chicago's former mayor, Richard M. Daley.
Crain's Chicago Business in 2006 named Edward, Daniel, and Anne one of "Illinois' most influential families" and in 2013 named Edward and Anne one of Chicago's "15 clout-heavy clans".
But never before has a judge suddenly dropped out at the final stage of a wrongful conviction case after allowing a defense attorney to call clout-heavy lawyers -- a former mayor and state's attorney, and a sitting appellate judge -- as witnesses.
But Cassidy, who was a long-time assistant in the Cook County State's Attorney's office and also once ran Cullerton's district office, described such clout-heavy names as "the people who have seen me work for the last 20 years and seen me get things done and deliver results".
It was already clear that the PMA Group had heavy clout through Representative John Murtha and his powerful clique of defense appropriators.
