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Remembering the Chicago mariachi who serenaded Richard J. Daley and Nixon (and everyone else)
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCHICAGO — José Cruz Alba occupied the center oval of a very small Venn diagram: He rubbed shoulders...
Editorial: MLK’s Chicago setback looks more like a victory today
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWere the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement that he led outwitted by Chicago’s Mayor Richard J. Daley? As King’s top aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, would later write, ...
Daywatch Special Edition: Chicago during the Boss years
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGood morning, Chicago. Few names are as synonymous with Chicago as Richard J. Daley, better known to some as Hizzoner or Da Mare. And perhaps no event better epitomizes the way Chicago was changing ...
A tragic fire and other tales highlight the start of a new season of WTTW’s ‘Chicago Stories’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMayor Richard J. Daley cried. We don’t see this but rather are told about it in the first of the...
Editorial: Is the Chicago Teachers Union the new machine?
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the 1919 mayoral campaign in Chicago, a young Richard J. Daley signed up as a precinct captain in Chicago’s 11th Ward, and he hitched his wagon to the Cook County Democratic Organization, ...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: 10 biggest bummers in 100 years of city history
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoChicagoans are familiar with disappointment. “There’s always next year,” was the motto for...
Clarence Page: A new Chicago mayor faces similar issues to the ones that dogged Richard J. Daley in...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWhen a friend reminded me that it’s almost time for the Democratic National Convention, I wanted to say, “That’s OK, I’m good with the last one.” But, I didn’t. I’m too much of a political junkie ...
From Chicago machine maestro to indicted alderman, Ed Burke’s corruption trial follows half-century...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoEd Burke was born into the machine. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the...
On This Day, April 3: FBI arrests 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOn April 3, 1996, the FBI raided a Montana cabin and arrested Theodore Kaczynski, accusing him of...
Ex-Mayor Richard Daley expected to spend a 3rd night in the hospital
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFormer Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley was expected to spend Friday night, his third, in the...
