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Outside Chicago's massive city hall, 4,000 black demonstrators chanted in the chilly night for Alderman Timothy Evans to succeed the late Mayor Harold Washington, whom he had served as city council floor leader. Evans' backers also packed the galleries of the council chamber to oppose Alderman Eugene Sawyer, a black with ties to the white machine that Washington had fought. "Uncle Tom Sawyer!" some spectators shouted, waving dollar bills to dramatize their charge that Sawyer had sold out to Washington's enemies...
...been an effective operator who got along with both the Richard Daley machine and the constituents of his black middle-class district. Under Chicago's notorious patronage system, Sawyer admits, he was able to place 16 friends and relatives in city jobs. Yet he was the first black alderman to break with former Mayor Jane Byrne and thus help Washington defeat her in 1983. He supported Washington's policies, but in a quiet style that did not alienate the council's white ethnic pols. While Washington won with solid black and some white-liberal support, Sawyer could conceivably build...
...energy and a flair for press coverage, Gephardt helped residents keep grocery stores and hospitals in the neighborhood and massage parlors out. He developed a quick eye for compromise, harnessing reluctant conservative aldermen to his own group of Young Turks to start the city's revival. Many logically pegged Alderman Gephardt for the mayor's office, but he opted instead for Congress in 1976. Opponents criticized his national ambitions, and his own party favored another candidate, but Gephardt and his family knocked on 50,000 doors and won anyway...
...checks the alumni send in are never intended for the progressive groups about which today's students really care. Never for the Gay and Lesbian Studies Center. Never for the Green Party Alderman Re-Election Committee. Never for the Students Against Nuclear Byproducts...
...this charge, Kenney said that she meant that, as an alderman, she would have more influence to bring about changes which she personally cared about. Divestment and housing the homeless "are things that I have been personally involved with and as an alderwoman I would continue to be a spokeswoman for these issues," Kenney said...