Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eddie Vrdolyak, former boss of Chicago, announced he was leaving the Democratic party of his immigrant parents, who found a home in one of the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, in order to join the Republican party of Lake Shore Drive. Apparently the Democrats no longer represented the interests that had drawn Vrdolyak's family to the party...
When Washington, the first Black Mayor of Chicago, first won the nomination of the party five years ago, Vrdolyak, who was a chief alderman, embarked on a political battle with his party colleague. Vrdolyak, the son of a Lithuanian saloon keeper, refused to share power on equal terms with the Blacks in the city...
...ELECTION proved that Chicago politics had been changed for ever. Blacks, not Irish or Slavs, are now the dominant ethnic force. But this is not the Chicago machine's last hurrah; it's a chance for a new beginning...
...situation exists in Chicago. A Black man clearly is at the head of the Democratic Party in Chicago. The question is whether the old machine style of powersharing between different ethnic voting blocks will work to keep the city at political peace or whether age-old racial divisions will prove too strong. Will racial prejudice in ethnic neighborhoods--spurred on by the baiting rhetoric of people like Vrdolyak who has begun to reach for the Republicans in neighborhoods he used to wardheel as a Democrat--make a white-Black sharing of power impossible as long as the Blacks are dominant...
...many exclusive towns, especially on the East and West coasts. The average sale price of a home in Bradbury, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, has in the past year gone from $459,000 to $610,000, according to a survey by the nationwide broker network of RELO, a Chicago-based relocation service. In Greenwich, Conn., northeast of Manhattan, the average cost has skyrocketed incredibly, from $467,500 to $1.2 million since the summer of 1986. Prices are not rising that fast in heartland suburbs, but almost every region of the U.S. has a strong luxury-housing market, with the exception...