The mayor rides a softer image into a strong lead
Chicago's modern political history reads like a florid novel, chockablock with shameless rascals and small-time chiselers, ethnic vendettas, loose talk, brazen vote fraud and suspicious sums of cash. The protagonist of Volume I, of course, was Mayor Richard J. Daley, the city's flinty czar for 21 years until his death in 1976. The plot of the sequel, still unfolding, is no less vivid.
In next week's Democratic mayoral primary, Incumbent Jane Byrne, for years a Daley protegee, is opposed in her campaign for a second term by her patron's eldest son, State's Attorney...
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