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...Cook County machine is one of the most famous in the nation. It was in Cook County that John F. Kennedy received the votes to take the state of Illinois from Richard M. Nixon. At the time the machine was run by the famed Richard Daley...
Vrdolyak was Daley's successor but he failed to learn one of the principal lessons of the machine politician: every vote--no matter who casts it--counts toward victory...
Vrdolyak didn't want the votes of Blacks. Daley never had to confront his prejudice because in his time the Black vote was still disenfranchised. But while Daley never dealt with the Black vote; Vrdolyak did--and this latter day boss did not adapt to let Blacks into the machine on an equal level...
...kind of town, Chicago is," crooned Mayor Harold Washington with more enthusiasm than tune. He had good reason to sing: the elated mayor was celebrating his re-election and emergence as Chicago's most dominant political figure since the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Washington took 53.5% of the vote last week to trounce his archenemy, former Alderman Edward Vrdolyak (42.2%), and Republican Donald Haider (4.3%). Cook County Assessor Thomas C. Hynes withdrew from the race 36 hours before the polls opened...
Becoming the first Chicago mayor to win re-election since Daley did it twelve years ago, Washington gained the kind of clout he will need to recast the city council and the shattered Democratic machine to his liking. But Chicago's bitter political divisions remain: the mayor captured an estimated 95.6% of the black vote but just 20% of the white vote...