Abstract
A quarter of a century later, in another political confrontation highly charged by white racism, the overwhelming majority of Chicago's black population rejected its domination by the corrupt Democratic Party Machine and elected Harold Washington mayor of the city. Washington's reform administration was immediately confronted with a $121 million long-term deficit left by defeated Democratic Mayor Jane Byrne, as well as gross bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption. But most striking to the new mayor was the petty vindictiveness of the old regime. On the first morning in the mayor's office, Washington discovered that virtually all crucial administrative files had vanished. Other
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