Sadly, Fox has whacked The Chicago Code

It will be a long time before Chicago has a female police commissioner, and an even longer time before an African-American alderman is more powerful than the mayor. Alderman Gibbons to the contrary, Harold Washington was not Chicago's only black mayor (his successor, Eugene Sawyer, was also African-American). And The Outfit is definitely not Irish.  But The Chicago Code tried hard to capture the essense of my home town, and I respect the effort. At least there was no mention of Lake Forest as "Forest Lake," as happened recently on the other Chicago-based network drama, The Good Wife, when hubby's Republican opponent in the race for Cook County State's Attorney moved there in order to establish residence in the county.

Sadly, Fox has made the decision to pull the plug on The Code, just as Alderman Gibbons was before a grand jury and about to announce for mayor.

I'll miss what amounted to a weekly visit back home on Monday nights. And I'll miss the show. It wasn't perfect, but it deserved a far bigger audience than it got.

The series finale, "Mike Royko's Revenge," airs tonight. Regrettably, bus schedules will cause me to miss it.

ADDENDUM: Seems, on the whole, to have been a good episode that tied up the loose ends admirably. "Irish mob" godfather Killian was shot and killed by Gibbons' girlfriend/secretary (aw, c'mon!), undercover cop Liam is in from the cold (with his evidence against Gibbons)and re-united with his family, Killian's daughter turned state's evidence against the alderman out of a desire for revenge, Gibbons is in jail awaiting trial, and Commissioner Colvin met a nice man.

None of this, of course, would have precluded a second season. This was Illinois, after all- and Chicago, to boot. There would have always been Gibbons' trial, and even a guilty verdict wouldn't necessarily have ended his career.

Like I said, this was Chicago. In any case, I'll be able to catch the finale on line.