From the Editorial Board: A century after his birth, the legacy of former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington offers much for the city he once governed to celebrate and, looking forward, to contemplate.
A century after his birth, the legacy of former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington offers much for the city he once governed to celebrate and, looking forward, to contemplate.
Overnight, the city’s moribund Republicans rallied behind a long shot: Bernard Epton, an Illinois House member from Hyde Park. Racial code surfaced most ominously in his campaign’s ads that urged votes for Epton “before it’s too late.”from a bloc of 29 mostly white aldermen who blocked his agenda as rigidly as the partisan gridlock that ties up Congress today.
He mandated government transparency, access and diversity. He created the city’s first Office of Latino Affairs. He opened new opportunities in hiring and appointments for diverse Chicagoans.
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