Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Election Coverage And Chicago History

This Time magazine piece by Amy Sullivan does a nice job of mixing the past with the present in terms of Chicago's political history. Sullivan makes some intriguing and telling observations:1. [Rahm] Emanuel, a Chicago native, is a typically colorful figure, known for once mailing a rotting fish to a political opponent and for a post-election dinner in 1992 at which he repeatedly stabbed a