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Harper won the case for the Little Rock residents. He also successfully negotiated the desegregation of the Chicago public schools in 1977, solidifying his status as a preeminent civil rights lawyer...
...from the typically cocksure Mayor Richard M. Daley, the savvy Chicago ambassador courting CEOs and world-class architects, or the hard-knuckle retail politician pressing the flesh in his family's blue-collar neighborhoods. A week after two of Daley's top officials were charged with mail fraud in a widening federal corruption probe, the Cook County Republican Party had gone so far as to offer a $10,000 reward to anyone who could provide information leading to the conviction of the mayor himself, and suddenly he seemed a bit like a wounded animal, ready to lash out or, alternatively...
...most of his 16 years in office, Daley has seemed responsible for everything in Chicago, good and bad. Despite his own fair share of embarrassing scandals, the son of legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley has largely managed to avoid his father's notoriety for cronyism and back-room dealing, a record of corruption that led to a federal ban in 1983 on almost all politically motivated hiring in Cook County. Instead Daley has won praise for spurring economic development, reducing crime and trying to reform public housing and education--which earned him a place as one of America's Best...
...People used to say, 'You're the mayor's son--you don't have to do anything,'" Daley says. "I've worked very hard to be where I am. People know who I am in this city, and they respect me." He just has to hope that in Chicago, that's what will count most. --Reported by Wendy Cole, Elizabeth Coady and Eric Ferkenhoff/Chicago
...lactose-free dairy substitutes, the soybean has long been seen as a food for the abstemious. But the prim and proper pulse is now set for an image makeover?thanks to its new role as a source of hard liquor. Developed by Sovereign Brands LLC, a company in Chicago, 3 Vodka (3vodka.com) is the only spirit distilled from soya available today. It took three years to hone and is made through a complex, secret process that requires two distillations. After a period of limited distribution in the U.S., 3 Vodka is now hitting international markets in a sleek, stylish bottle...