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...recent riots in the city's Puerto Rican section resulted in eight persons shot and dozens more injured by rocks and flying glass. No one was more riled than Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko. But as usual, Mike's anger had an unexpected target. Mayor Richard Daley, he wrote, was quite right when he blamed the trouble on "outside influences." One of those out side influences, continued Royko, "was Mayor Daley. He manages to attend many wakes in his part of town. But when the Puerto Ricans invited him to a banquet last week-their biggest social...
...elections proved at least that in Chicago, whose pugnacious brand of politics has earned it the sobriquet "City of Clout," Daley will still have plenty at his disposal when, as expected, he seeks a fourth four-year term next spring...
...primaries, Republican Charles Percy, 46, won easily. In nearly complete returns, he amassed 502,421 votes to 56,328 for two minor rivals, while three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 74, unopposed, picked up 747,896 votes. Too many imponderables make predictions risky, but the new vigor of the Daley machine will not make things easier for Charles Percy...
Mayor Richard Daley's administration, which has been eying the Negro ghettos apprehensively for the past three summers, was astonished that the season's first serious outburst had occurred in the Puerto Rican district. Yet, beneath its quiet workaday surface, Division Street had long been simmering with discontent. Proud and hardworking, yet insecure and frustrated in a strange land, the Puerto Ricans have been all but ignored by city hall, which cannot even say with any degree of accuracy how many Puerto Ricans live in the city's boundaries. (Estimates range all the way from...
Superintendent Wilson, former dean of the University of California School of Criminology in Berkeley, moved swiftly to meet minority groups' complaints. Even as Mayor Daley fulminated darkly against "outsiders" who had stirred up the trouble, Wilson called on more Puerto Ricans to join the department, appointed a Negro commander to oversee a prime Negro trouble spot, and ordered the immediate integration of all two-man patrol cars...