Anyone who mourns his passing didn't know him.
He had this undying devotion to, and worship of, the smash-mouth politics of the Chicago Democrat machine.
Tyranny and corruption bothered him not at all, as long as it was from the Chicago Democrat machine.
He thought he had it all figured out; if he took care of the Machine, the Machine would take care of him.
The last few years, it was obvious the Machine wasn't the least bit interested in taking care of him in his old age, what with their ever-increasing higher and higher taxes to pay for corruption, but I dunno if he lived long enough to see that.