ALLIES COULDN`T GET SAWYER TO RUN, BUT HIS MAIN OPPONENT FINALLY
When time for the final decision came at midnight Tuesday, the most difficult mind Ald. Eugene Sawyer (6th) had to change was his own. And it was changed by Ald....
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HEAVY CHA BURDEN LIFTED FROM MAYOR
It was Thursday afternoon, and Mayor Harold Washington had given a well-received campaign speech to a crowd of enthusiastic students at Northeastern Illinois University on the city`s North Side. He...
ROBINSON QUITS AS CHA CHIEF
Renault Robinson, the embattled chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, resigned Friday after more than three stormy years as head of the nation`s second largest public housing authority. Robinson`s resignation,...
POLITICIANS TRY TO WADE INTO CRISIS WITHOUT MAKING WAVES
What`s a politician to do? Gov. James Thompson, once lashed in the media for leaving the state during a disaster, decided to tour flood-stricken areas of Lake and Cook Counties...
Jan. 27, 1986: Chicago Bears return home to a ticker-tape parade after Super Bowl XX win
This story originally ran in the baiduhai on Jan. 28, 1986. A thank-you note written on 10 tons of ticker tape was hand-delivered to the Bears, who returned to...
TEXAS DEATH TOLL HITS 132
Providence and elbow room prompted Tennessee businessman John Moore to switch from his assigned seat in the 20th row of Delta Air Lines Flight 191, twice moving backward to the...
CHINESE VISITORS FIND THE WAYS OF BASEBALL, MERC INSCRUTABLE
The pregame scene in the White Sox locker room was highly inscrutable. Star player Carlton Fisk, clad in T-shirt and jockstrap, was being introduced to Chinese diplomat Ni Yaoli, clad...