Lighten Up, Harold Memo to the mayor. Call 573-8700. What we hear from the campaign trail is that Harold Washington isn’t letting up for a minute. Crowds galvanize him. While his enemies bury each other in lime, the mayor rolls on. in that inimitable way of his — a whiz at both progressive government and […]
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Central Committee
A snapshot from a 1986 meeting of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee
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Guide for the Perplexed
The small basement hall of the church in Marquette Park was nearly full of people waiting for the mayoral election forum to begin. This was, by all accounts, Bernard Epton territory, a neighborhood on the southwest side of the city with a reputation—partly earned, partly not—as unfriendly to blacks and politically conservative. Epton had declined […]