Here are six books to understand what the Windy City is really about
. “Boss” is his contemporary biography of Richard Daley, perhaps the most powerful elected mayor in American history. Just as it is impossible to understand modern New York without knowing how Moses rebuilt it, comprehending Chicago today requires you to understand the political machine that Daley built, which even today is not entirely dead.
The election of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, in 1983, was such a shock to the country that Royko wrote a column in which he told his readers not to worry: the new mayor “doesn’t want to marry your sister”. Gary Rivlin’s “Fire on the Prairie” explains how it happened, and what ensued when Washington had to contend with a hostile city council that worked to hamper his every move.
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