Where never is heard an encouraging word about Trump

It was in the mid-1980s and I was one of the house guests visiting my brother.  The others were a retired commercial banker from Chicago and his wife, who was a long-time friend who had worked with my brother.  The banker and I got into a discussion on vetting businessmen in our previous jobs, me as a business editor and he as a banker.  We traded stories on grifters and frauds we had come across.  In that context, he talked about Donald Trump.

I don't believe he had met Trump in person, but he had many business associates who had.  They despised Trump to the point that they warned others about having anything to do with him and made clear that they would lose their respect for anyone who did.  While Trump has some active supporters in Chicago, they are out-powered in number and intensity by those who despise him.  His most recent visit to Chicago was met with signs that he wasn't welcome there.  During his campaign, he canceled a rally there when he learned of the intensity of the protests planned for him.  The banker's fellow executives had indicated that they did not want the bank to be involved with Trump and his schemes in any way.  The ethical business community of the city had the same attitude.

The Trump Organization eventually bought a prime piece of  real estate on the Chicago River and built a 98-story building on it.  The project was generally as despised among Chicagoans as Trump himself is.  The building has struggled financially to the point that the Organization has appealed to the county board to reduce its taxes.  The building, as the article below illustrates, has become the object of derision and contempt.

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By Ryan Smith @ryansmithwriter(From a December 2017 article.)
The specific reasons for people in Chicago detesting Trump, the banker said, were numerous.  The main one was that business people saw that his business proposals were utter bullshit, and they resented that he was stupid enough to think anyone would fall for them.  They also rejected him because he was obnoxious in a strikingly stupid way.  And he had associations with organized criminals, and Chicago has been fighting the gangland associations since the time of Al Capone.  The town simply has wanted no part of Trump.
The banker made a point that a few business people acknowledge that Trump has been able to make money, but no one speaks of his business schemes or his character with admiration or approval.  The majority regard him as a bumbling fraudster who has managed to evade criminal charges so far.  I have found that to be true up to today.  The only people who speak approvingly of Trump and his business practices are those who know nothing about business or Trump's business history,  particularly his six corporate bankruptcies.
In the 2016 election, Trump got 12.5 percent of the vote in Chicago.  Chicago knows and understands Trump in ways that the rest of the country doesn't.  It knows a crook when it sees one.