Word: vrdolyak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among themselves and leave the blacks and Poles out of it. Alderman Michael Bilandic of Daley's own 11th Ward would get their backing for acting mayor on the condition he would not run in the special mayoral election to be held this spring. Ald. Edward Vrdolyak was supposed to get the powerful finance committee chairmanship Bilandic had held...
...deal stuck. As a portrait of Daley beamed benevolently down on them, the aldermen decorously voted for the agreed-upon candidates. Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, who had yielded his finance committee post to Frost, hailed the selection process. "We all came to gether and put aside personal ambitions and ego," said Vrdolyak, who is the other Croatian on the city council. "I myself lost three jobs last week...