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...thermometer read 10° F as 3,000 teachers gathered last week in Chicago's downtown Daley Center to jeer at politicians, bankers and the insolvent Chicago board of education. On one demonstrator's placard was a photograph of Mayor Jane Byrne ringed menacingly by a bull's-eye target. Snapped a teacher: "I'm too angry to feel the cold." Others were out in the cold too: the city's 473,000 public school students. With most of their teachers taking part in what the 26,000-member Chicago Teachers Union called a "constructive...
...condemn Mayor Byrne in your article on Chicago's woes [Dec. 31] and bemoan Mayor Daley's absence by stating that if he were there, the city wouldn't have all these problems. The truth is that these problems are exploding because Mayor Daley was there and he gave away the store with lucrative settlements to keep his machine running smoothly...
TIME'S fervent admiration for Daley's "knack of finessing problems that sooner or later went away" is either cynical or naive. His legacy of more than two decades includes the usual sweetheart deals, payoffs, public loafing and school financial mismanagement bordering on criminal, besides a panoply of extravagant, unbuildable public works and a sorry record of getting the federal share. Mayor Byrne was not elected to repeat the past and is not afraid to face the future...
Democrats, however--especially former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley--did not like him much at all. As Hartley points out in one of his rare moments of enlightened commentary, Thompson prosecuted and achieved convictions of government officials for such commonplace trivialities as bribery, extortion--part of the politicians' "unofficial understanding" of the American political system--and mail fraud "without the political system stopping him at some point...
...STANDS, the major problem with Big Jim Thompson of Illinois is that most people couldn't care less about Big Jim Thompson. Fact is, unless you're from Illinois in general or the late Richard J. Daley's former kingdom of Cook County in particular, Gov. James R. Thompson of Illinois is probably as important to you as Gov. Ed Herschler of Wyoming (unless, of course, you happen to be from Wyoming--which, if you're an easterner, is somewhere near Alaska...