Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawing. In two days he sketched a few cartoons and sold them (six for $90) to a local magazine. Two years later the Seattle Times began running him regularly, followed by the San Francisco Chronicle in 1980. Today he is carried by the country's largest papers, including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News...
...Operation Incubator," the FBI investigation into Chicago corruption, proceeded for 2 1/2 years, speculation was rife that it might taint Mayor Harold Washington. When five indictments were finally handed up last week, two of the seven men charged were indeed black aldermen belonging to a bloc in the city council that supports Washington. But the charges, involving bribery to win city contracts for collecting unpaid parking tickets and water bills, fell far short of an attack on the mayor. To the contrary, U.S. Attorney Anton R. Valukas praised Washington for his cooperation. Said Valukas: "The mayor is not a target...
...same time, the number of small individual investors who own stock has been steadily shrinking, and the Boesky scandal may well accelerate that trend. Says Bill Kasten, an account executive in the Chicago offices of the E.F. Hutton investment firm: "Smaller investors now think that they're just crumbs in the pie, that they have no control." Agrees Robert Nichols, president of Los Angeles-based RNC Capital Management: "If we don't restore the public's confidence, the public is going to exit and not come back...
...least a dozen Mob leaders from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City have been put in prison since last January. Federal and state investigators are confident that the string of convictions will break down the discipline that the Mafia's commission had enforced. Created in the 1930s after a particularly bloody period of gang warfare, the commission divides turf among families, settles disputes and sanctions the slayings of those who break the rules. It now has several vacancies that may not be easy to fill. "The machinery to resolve those disputes has been wiped out," contends Ronald Goldstock, head...
...least the Chicago Bears know what has technically been wrong with Jim McMahon, the most erudite of their four quarterbacks, who has written one book and read several others. He has a slight tear in the rotator cuff of his right shoulder. McMahon said, "I knew something was in there," though two arthroscopic examinations were required to find it. Missing him for six of eleven games, Coach Mike Ditka had frankly grown dubious. "Can you hear that?" whispered the quarterback, jiggling his bad handle. "It sounds like somebody's walking around in wet shoes...