Abstract

Abstract Harold Washington, Chicago’s first African American mayor, elected in 1983, was asked the following question by a reporter for Crain’s Chicago Weekly: “I hear from some business leaders ... [that] they lament the divisiveness of the city and they worry about the image that projects beyond our borders, and they wish that Harold Washington would do more to overcome that kind of divisiveness You’re down there in the gutter with these guys and they wish that we had the kind of mayor that could somehow bring the city together again:’ Washington replied, “They can wish unto hell. Let me tell you something very bluntly.

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