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When I ran for 50th Ward Alderman in 1983, I was having lunch with a union representative. The union wanted to help me but was afraid of retribution from the Machine.
So, the union rep handed me his group’s membership list - under the table, as if we were spies and he was giving me classified documents.
“Call these people,” he said. “They’ll help you.”
A lot...
During Jane Byrne’s term as Mayor, Aldermen allied with then-Cook County State’s Attorney Rich Daley- William Lipinski (23dd), Michael Sheahan (19th), and Patrick Huels (11th) - often voted with Independents if a proposed ordinance was introduced by 43rd Ward Alderman Martin Oberman.
Oberman had endorsed Daley in his race for State’s Attorney against Republican Bernard ...
“You can’t stand there” the police officer assigned to our polling place told us on election day morning in the 1984 Democratic primary.
Police officers usually didn’t care about polling place irregularities. They often didn’t like being assigned to Election Day duties, so they just stood around ready to stop crime, not to enforce the election code.
Sometimes, th...
While working on the staff of 48th Ward Alderman Marion Volini, I clashed with Martin Tuchow, the Democratic Ward Committeeman.
He was the attorney representing a negligent property owner in the ward whose building had languished in Housing Court longer than all the others. And there were two cases against it. One was in Conservation Court, which dealt with common code...