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With dogged zeal, Alderman William Singer, 34, has visited every public school and transit station and nearly every supermarket, bowling alley and bingo parlor in Chicago during his 16-month campaign to defeat five-term Mayor Richard Daley in next week's primary. At many of the stops, city employees-among them transit workers, policemen and firemen-have been sidling up to offer encouragement to the maverick Democrat. "Lotsa luck, Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support...
...been the best of Richard J. Daley's 19 years as mayor of Chicago. In May, Daley, 72, suffered a stroke that required an operation and more than three months' convalescence. Then three Pooh-Bahs of the Daley machine-including Hizzoner's right-hand man. Alderman Thomas Keane-were convicted in federal court of charges ranging from mail fraud to income tax evasion, bringing to a total of ten the number of powerful machine men who have been convicted. In a recent series of articles, the Chicago Tribune, in conjunction with the Better Government Association, documented shocking...
...this time, Daley may have to overcome as many as four opponents in the Democratic primary in February-the first major opposition he has faced from within his own party since his first run for mayor in 1955. The strongest challenge comes from Alderman William Singer, 33, who led the delegation that was seated instead of Daley's at the 1972 Democratic Convention. Singer, brash and scrappy, has charged Daley with wholesale neglect of the city's deteriorating school system, and plans to visit all of the city's 584 public schools personally before the primary...
...jury in U.S. district court convicted Alderman Thomas Keane, 69, the machine's second most powerful mem ber, on 17 counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy in secret land deals...
Next day another federal jury convicted Alderman Paul Wigoda, 52, a machine member and Keane's law partner, on charges of evading income taxes in 1969 on a $50,000 bribe from real estate developers for pushing a zoning change through the city council. The day after that, still another federal jury convicted Daley's former press secretary, Earl Bush, 59, of eleven counts of mail fraud...