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When the Illinois legislature, two years ago, voted $24,000 for a guy named Joe, everybody around Chicago felt pretty good. Joe's last name was Majczek. Not all Chicagoans knew how to pronounce it (it rhymes with paycheck), but they all knew his story. Joe had had a tough time. He had spent twelve years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. His mother had scrubbed floors to get the money to help clear him. When he was pardoned (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945), curly-haired, good-looking Joe Majczek became the hero of every Pole...
Northside is based on the true story (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945) of one Joe Majczek, a Chicagoan charged with the murder of a policeman in 1932 and sentenced to 99 years in Stateville Penitentiary. Majczek was cleared, almost 13 years later, through the efforts of his mother and of a reporter for the Chicago Times...
...case such as this, surely a State should feel financial liability to the extent of assistance until suitable permanent employment could be found-if greater financial compensation is impossible under existing laws. Thanks to TIME [Aug. 27] and the Chicago Daily Times for publishing the story of Joe Majczek and his mother...
Last week, in a grey prison-made suit, with $10 of the state's money in his pocket, Joe Majczek walked out of the penitentiary a free man. His hair was greying. He talked gently. He looked at the trees, at passing girls, and said, "They never looked so nice before...
...walked into his mother's house. "My life was messed up," he said. "Maybe I can help my boy make something of his. I want my people to be proud of me." Proudly, Tillie Majczek sat in her front room with its bright, ugly rugs, its immaculate curtains, and looked at him, her hands folded...