But it is no exaggeration to say that, when the place works—and for years Chicago has taken pride in being "the city that works"—businessmen and politicians pull in the same direction.
Literally dozens of new bars have opened here, luring thirsty after-work businessmen with 24-hour beer barns, dance clubs, karaoke bars, an Irish Pub, a refrigerated "ice" bar and plenty of cheap eats to soak it all up.
"Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world where every government is just a bunch of businessmen working for a bunch of bigger businessmen and none of them give a shit about the people," he says.
Steve Phillips is like any other businessman working with a budget.
"But I was being a businessman, working on saving the business".
Israel identified its missing citizen as Elhanan Tannenbaum, who it said was a businessman working in Europe.
In January, a federal judge in Texas, citing lack of evidence, threw out a corruption case against an American businessman working for a Swiss company.
She almost samples the first, a pale, soft-serve businessman working in some vague capacity named George Paul Ruddd), after a mutual friend tries to hook them up.
But he cautioned that the Bullitt Center's experiment would have to show real results before even he, a businessman working in an environmentally conscious setting, would be persuaded.
The investigations resulted in two arrests last week: that of a German businessman working out of a garage near the city of Bochum and of a French pharmaceuticals trader.
The hotel is the centrepiece of a vast redevelopment of a swathe of the Besiktas district leased by the government to Sidar Bilgili, the Turkish businessman working with Starwood, on the condition that the buildings would be preserved.
