Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrogance of the Democratic political machine powered for so long by the late mayor Richard J. Daley was more obvious than ever on the eves of last week's primary election. "The machine may not be well , oiled," proclaimed Alderman Vito Marzullo, "but it will never break down. Mayor Bilandic is going to swamp them." But break down...
Dissident Machine Democrat Jane Byrne, 44, a Daley protegé and for ten years commissioner of consumer sales, had become disenchanted with Michael Bilandic, 56, who, was elected two years ago to succeed the Boss. In 1977, she charged that the new mayor had "greased" the way for an unwarranted taxicab rate increase. For that insubordination, Bilandic fired her. Veterans at city hall guffawed when the angry woman announced that she would challenge Bilandic...
They were not laughing last ? week. The plucky Byrne knocked Bilandic out of office, winning the Democratic nomination as the party's candidate for mayor by some 17,000 votes out of more than 800,000 cast. She not only beat the machine but Chicago's business and newspaper establishment, which supported the incumbent. Byrne is an overwhelming favorite to win next month over her little-known opponent, Republican Stockbroker Wallace Johnson...
...unbeatable. An easy-going type who constantly sang Chicago's praises, he staged a successful summer festival along the lakefront that attracted hundreds of thousands of fun seekers. He married a svelte socialite, Heather Morgan, and played the proud host to President Jimmy Carter, who slept in the mayor's house...
...uproar rose, it turned out the mayor had hired a former city hall crony to prepare a new snow-removal plan, and paid him $90,000 to do it. The resulting 23-page paper proved to be hardly better than a high school essay. Then came revelations of similar huge consulting fees to other political buddies. Chicagoans' anger increased. Finally stung, Bilandic made a bizarre speech in which he likened the attacks on him to the Crucifixion and the criticism of the city to the Holocaust. He charged that the same "subversives" who had toppled governments in Iran...