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Richard J. Daley was mayor of Chicago from 21 years, from 1955 to 1976. During that time, he headed a vast Democratic political machine. He died unexpectedly at age 74 on Dec. 20, 1976, when he had a heart attack during a visit to his doctor's office. Daley had been mayor longer than anyone else, and his death came as a shock to a generation of Chicagoans who could remember no other mayor. He was often described as the last of the big city bosses ruling over the last of the big city political machines. But he was also an expert on municipal government and especially city finance. He was the most powerful Democrat in Illinois and the most influential mayor in the nation. His son, Richard M. Daley, was first...
Richard J. Daley was mayor of Chicago from 21 years, from 1955 to 1976. During that time, he headed a vast Democratic political machine. He died unexpectedly at age 74 on Dec. 20, 1976, when he had a heart attack during a visit to his doctor's office. Daley had been mayor longer than anyone else, and his death came as a shock to a generation of Chicagoans who could remember no other mayor. He was often described as the last of the big city bosses ruling over the last of the big city political machines. But he was also an expert on municipal government and especially city finance. He was the most powerful Democrat in Illinois and the most influential mayor in the nation. His son, Richard M. Daley, was first elected mayor in 1989 and won a sixth term in 2007.
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The speed of love Like Einstein searching for a famous law of physics, Northwestern University researchers Finkel and Eastwick ("I think I love you," June 29) hope to unravel the secret of relationships. Their formula appears to be a variation on the...Tags: Deerfield, Northwestern University, Batavia
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Born to be wild
Four decades back? Can't be. The year 1968—historically profound, politically momentous, artistically revolutionary—is still going on, still surrounding us, still repeating its crucial notes, like a record on the turntable with a skip in it....Tags: Chicago Police Department, Political Candidates, Martin Luther King Jr., Elections, Radio Industry
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Mailer and mayhem
Chicago Tribune criticDon't skim. You'll be tempted to do just that, of course, because his sentences tend to stretch out sinuously like cats in the sun, and because a culture more at home with the rhythms of blogs—quick hits, short takes, lists and nuggets—than...Tags: Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Henry Holt, Norman Mailer, History
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CITY Blue Man Group: If you'd told me in 1997 that I'd be back more than a decade later at a packed-to-the-gills Briar Street Theatre watching a weirdly expressive trio of cobalt dudes drumming and splattering, I'd have said you'd ingested too much blue...Tags: Armed Forces, Bank of America Corp., Steppenwolf Theatre, United Center, Oriental Theater
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CITY Campaign Supernova: Second City e.t.c. always has to be sufficiently edgy that its parent institution doesn't seem in a creative rut, but when the mainstage sells out, it also has to deliver laughs for a general audience. As directed by Matt...Tags: Navy Pier, Armed Forces, Defense, Bank of America Corp., Steppenwolf Theatre
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After 111 years, Chicago does right by a Louis Tiffany masterpiece
It took some detective work--and a little urban archaeology--but the results should dispel one of the enduring myths of Chicago architecture. At the same time, they will reveal the bejeweled Tiffany dome of the Chicago Cultural Center not as many...Tags: Wedding Services, Evanston, Harold Washington, Metal and Mineral, Building Material
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A restoration drama
by tom hundley tribune photos by nancy stone ---------------------------------------- It took some detective work-and a little urban archaeology-but the results should dispel one of the enduring myths of Chicago architecture. At the same time, they...Tags: Wedding Services, Evanston, Harold Washington, Metal and Mineral, Building Material
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Chicago Seven story gets a radical updating in an animated film
Los Angeles TimesWhen writer-director Brett Morgen first waded into the voluminous records of the infamous Chicago Seven trial of 1969, he was blown away by the theater of it all. The charismatic, radical Abbie Hoffman — whose Yippie movement elevated him to rock-...Tags: Hank Azaria, Fort Lauderdale, Ted Williams, Riots, Graydon Carter
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A life of public service with smile for everyone
Tribune reporterAllen A. Freeman, a Republican Chicago alderman in the years after World War II, pushed for wider powers to punish polluters as a deputy Illinois attorney general and, in the final chapter of his public career, sat on the Cook County Circuit Court bench...Tags: Death and Dying, Judges, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Trials, U.S. Cellular Field
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