"Aldermen poked fun at their retired colleague in a slickly-produced video, then presented him with the infamous photo of Mell jumping on his desk the night the City Council chose a successor to former Mayor Harold Washington.
But they also paid homage to a master of the game of politics who used the formidable Northwest Side organization he built to help some colleagues and oppose others."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/22504554-418/dick-mell-tribute-part-roast-stand-up-comedy-soap-opera.html
Sure, nothing like honoring a Machine Hack who groomed the psycho Blago to embarass the State in the eyes of the US.
Due to Machine Hacks like sMell, the Daley Sr. crime syndicate nearly turned Chicago into Cleveland and never snowplowed neighborhood side streets until Washington got elected. Only the election of Byrne and Washington saved the city from the faith of Detroit.
You Sir, Mister sMell, are the Mell most deserving to be charged with sodomy due to your decades of screwing the tax payers of Chicago.