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...article on stars referred to celestial events around the time of Jesus' birth. However, there is a great deal of scholarship which indicates that Jesus was not an historical character. One might as well refer to stars at the birth of Jack Frost or Santa Claus...
What may not have made Daley happy was to see the city break up along ethnic lines, something his presence always prevented. The blacks caucused to support Frost in his bid for the acting mayor spot--a position much of Chicago thought he deserved. The Poles met too and a couple of Jewish aldermen claimed Polish grandmothers to get in on the conference...
Word of the deal leaked and the outrage it engendered made council leaders reconsider. Black attorneys were threatening suit if Frost was not made acting mayor. The power brokers offered Frost the finance chairmanship and told the Polish bloc it could fill the newly created position of vice-mayor (powerless except in the event of the death of the new mayor...
...knew until December 28, the day the council met, whether Frost would accept the newly-cut deal. He did, claiming he wanted "real power" instead of taking a "suicide jump" by seeking council votes for acting mayor. The black coalition said he had sold out and pledged not to support him in the special mayoralty election, six months hence. Bilandic was elected acting mayor by the council and the next day Cook County Board Chairman George Dunne was elected chairman of the Central Committee...
...Slowly a whole generation of grown men are finding themselves, realizing for the first time in their lives that they don't have to take orders from anyone. Mayor Daley so dominated local politics that few others received any exposure. Not one in fifty Chicagoans could have identified Wilson Frost or Michael Bilandic before last month...