Not long before aldermen approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s new protest regulations last week, Burt Natarus was wandering the hallways behind council chambers in search of someone interested in a little political history.
“Sometimes I don’t think anyone gives a shit,” he said.
Natarus served as alderman of the 42nd Ward from 1971 to 2007. Natarus has always been a sociable, creative soul, and on this occasion he was bearded and wearing heavy boots and a wooly acrylic jacket, as if he could have arrived straight from a hunting expedition in the north woods.