NEWS
March 1, 1989 | ERIC HARRISON, Times Staff Writer
Richard M. Daley, the son of the legendary mayor who dominated Chicago politics for more than two decades, won the Democratic primary for mayor Tuesday in an election split overwhelmingly along racial lines. In a contest punctuated in its last days by nasty racial appeals and inflammatory accusations, Daley, the Cook County states attorney, pulled together a coalition of blue-collar whites, affluent whites and Latinos to defeat Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer.
NEWS
March 1, 1989 | BOB SECTER, Times Staff Writer
Jeff Toth stepped up to a polling booth at the Abraham Lincoln School Tuesday and did something that not long ago would have been considered unusual by the electoral norms of the independent-minded 43rd Ward. He voted for Richard Daley in the Democratic mayoral primary, as did most of Toth's friends and neighbors in the north side Lincoln Park area. It wasn't that Richard Daley, of course, but rather his son, Cook County State's Atty. Richard M.
NEWS
February 28, 1989 | ERIC HARRISON, Times Staff Writer
After an early attempt at civility, Chicago is showing its true colors, so to speak. Leading up to today's mayoral primary, Richard M. Daley, the leading white candidate, has been censured by a watchdog group for allegedly telling Polish voters "you want a white mayor."
NEWS
February 27, 1989
Chicago's Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer and his chief Democratic rival, Cook County State's Atty. Richard M. Daley, sprinted to the finish of a hotly contested primary race in the nation's third-largest city. Despite holding a lead in the polls, Daley, son of legendary "Boss" Richard J. Daley, who ruled the city for 21 years, crisscrossed the city with less than 48 hours to go until the polls open Tuesday.
NEWS
February 23, 1989 | ERIC HARRISON, Times Staff Writer
Less than a week before Election Day, former Chicago Alderman Edward R. Vrdolyak announced Wednesday that he will run as a write-in candidate for mayor in the Republican primary. The controversial Vrdolyak, who had kept GOP officials in suspense before announcing at the last minute in December that he would not enter the race, said Wednesday that he had changed his mind. "I'll be your candidate," he told 600 cheering supporters at a Chicago restaurant.
NEWS
February 16, 1989 | ERIC HARRISON, Times Staff Writer
Mayor Eugene Sawyer, claiming that he is in a virtual "dead heat" with State Atty. Richard M. Daley as the Democratic mayoral primary approaches, won the endorsement Wednesday of Alderman Lawrence Bloom, who dropped out of the race. Bloom's departure leaves only Sawyer and Daley in the Democratic primary, which will be held Feb. 28. Daley is the son of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, who dominated city politics for 21 years until his death in 1976.