Word: mayors
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...CHICAGO--Mayor Eugene Sawyer stepped up the pace of his campaign yesterday, buoyed by late poll results showing him closing in on Democratic rival Richard M. Daley one day before a court-ordered primary election...
Sawyer, the city's second Black mayor, was joined by Jesse Jackson at the school. He later campaigned at a public housing project, two senior citizens centers and other spots...
Daley was busy, too. The son of legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley visited restaurants, shook hands with commuters at elevated train stations and walked through neighborhoods in a frenetic final day of campaigining...
Residents in the nation's third-largest city vote today to fill the vacancy left by former Mayor Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, who died in November 1987. The Illinois Supreme Court last year ordered the special election to fill the last two years of his term...
Sawyer, who was elected acting mayor by city officials days after Washington's death, has been struggling to keep the seat. But as election day neared, he steadily closed on Daley, the Cook County state's attorney...