Reason ranks the 35 biggest cities by freedom

Guess which city comes in last in personal freedom? If you don't know, you are new to this blog. How about this apalling part:

Shortly after taking office in 1989, Mayor Richard Daley blew the dust off an ancient ordinance allowing individual city precincts to vote themselves dry. Today, nearly one quarter of Chicago’s precincts are alcohol-free; the number of Chicago taverns has dropped from some 7,000 in the late 1940s to just over 1,300 today.

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This strikes me as about right: