Betty Loren-Maltese stepped out of the elevator and headedsilently for her meeting Friday with the mob, the really scary mob--the one we call the news media.
She'd faced down this group of professional hit men and women manytimes before, but this would be a first. She'd never done it as aconvicted felon.
The elevator banks are just around the corner from the lobby inthe Dirksen Federal Building, where the mob was held at bay, whichafforded the Cicero town president and her entourage a few moreseconds of cover.
Cicero Police Chief Tom Rowan, playing plainclothes security guardto the boss, was the first to round the corner.
"Sweet Jesus!" he muttered as he …
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