Harold Washington

I fear for you, Harold Washington. In the fleeting moments between the phone and taking laundry from the dryer I feel a sharp pain of fear for you. And though I am not given to praying. I pray for you. I fear for you, Harold Washington. Miss my exit from the freeway because I hear my grandmother singing Were You There? when they crucified And though I am not given to praying, I pray for you.

Eugene Sawyer, 73, Chicago's second African American mayor, who served briefly during a deeply divisive period in city politics in the late 1980s, died Saturday in the city's Adventist Hinsdale Hospital after several recent strokes, his family said. A native of Greensboro, Ala., Sawyer served as mayor for 16 months after the sudden death of the city's first black mayor, Harold Washington. Elected an alderman for Chicago's 6th Ward in 1971, Sawyer was chosen by the City Council to replace Washington in 1987.

The burly shadow of Richard J. Daley hangs over these two books, a presence as mocking, potent, threatening and mysterious as Franco's shadow over Spain. There was about both men a stillness and implacability, and a sense of something always held in reserve; but while both men held absolute authority in their domains, Franco had no hesitation about using his, and Daley did.

Regarding "Book Sparks, in a Word, Controversy" (Jan. 11): [The n-word] is more than just a word. It is a powerful and useful linguistic indictment of the evil dehumanization and contempt that infested the society that coined it. HAROLD WASHINGTON Camarillo It seems to me that all the research and soul-searching that goes into finding some greater meaning of the word is an effort to find something other than the simple truth, which...

Mayor Harold Washington won the Democratic primary last week by 7.1 percentage points, or 78,158 votes, according to newly released results from the Board of Election Commissioners' final canvass. Washington drew 587,594 votes to former Mayor Jane M. Byrne's 509,436 votes.

The Chicago corporation counsel's office has asked the U.S. attorney's office to investigate charges that Chicago Housing Authority money was used to make illegal contributions to Mayor Harold Washington's reelection fund. Attorneys for the counsel's office called for the investigation after Lynne Borrell, a former deputy executive director at the authority, made the allegations in sworn testimony, Matthew Piers, deputy corporation counsel, said.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of an artist whose portrait of the late Mayor Harold Washington in women's undergarments was seized by policemen at an exhibition. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court, seeks $100,000 in damages from Police Supt. LeRoy Martin, unidentified officers and three City Council members.

Outraged City Council members voted Wednesday to cut off funding to the Art Institute of Chicago until it permanently removes a painting that depicts the late Mayor Harold Washington garbed in women's lingerie. Aldermen said the controversial artwork, painted by a student of the School of the Art Institute, was offensive, but students at the school accused the city of violating their First Amendment right to freedom of expression.

Eugene Sawyer, 73, Chicago's second African American mayor, who served briefly during a deeply divisive period in city politics in the late 1980s, died Saturday in the city's Adventist Hinsdale Hospital after several recent strokes, his family said. A native of Greensboro, Ala., Sawyer served as mayor for 16 months after the sudden death of the city's first black mayor, Harold Washington. Elected an alderman for Chicago's 6th Ward in 1971, Sawyer was chosen by the City Council to replace Washington in 1987.

Ending a prolonged investigation, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said Wednesday there is insufficient evidence to prosecute former Mayor Tom Bradley on bribery charges for helping a developer who subsequently received city approval of a controversial low-income housing project. The district attorney's office said some of the activities by several other public officials on behalf of developer Harold R. Washington Jr.

In a surprise move, a developer and fund-raiser for Mayor Tom Bradley settled a longstanding labor violation case Thursday just as his trial was to begin on charges that he cheated workers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars on a city redevelopment project. Harold R. Washington Jr. pleaded no contest to 33 misdemeanor violations of state laws requiring that workers on public works projects be paid prevailing wages.

The burly shadow of Richard J. Daley hangs over these two books, a presence as mocking, potent, threatening and mysterious as Franco's shadow over Spain. There was about both men a stillness and implacability, and a sense of something always held in reserve; but while both men held absolute authority in their domains, Franco had no hesitation about using his, and Daley did.

I fear for you, Harold Washington. In the fleeting moments between the phone and taking laundry from the dryer I feel a sharp pain of fear for you. And though I am not given to praying. I pray for you. I fear for you, Harold Washington. Miss my exit from the freeway because I hear my grandmother singing Were You There? when they crucified And though I am not given to praying, I pray for you.

During the last three years, scandals swirling around Mayor Tom Bradley's Administration have exposed fundamental weaknesses in a local political system once touted as a model of clean government, according to ethics experts, political scientists and elected officials. "It was mythology . . . sold to generations of Angelenos," said Eric Shockman of USC's Unruh Institute of Politics. "We are not 'the city on the hill.'

Reasons to live: 1) The Bulls have to go back to Chicago. 2) Chicagoans will rise to the occasion as well as they did the last time they had an event of any national significance, the 1968 Democratic convention. 3) The Chicago City Council's last response to art, Harold Washington's portrait, was to rip it out of the museum. You may depend on them to eventually treat the Bulls the same way. 4) They're going to have to listen to Spike Lee crow all summer. Legend and Dynasty and Shoes will be mentioned until even they are sick of it. 5)

Los Angeles redevelopment officials Monday proposed a multimillion-dollar city buyout of a controversial low-income housing development that is the focus of a political corruption investigation involving one of Mayor Tom Bradley's campaign fund-raisers.

Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has repeatedly intervened with city and federal agencies to help a campaign fund-raiser whose housing developments figure prominently in an expanding political corruption probe, records and interviews show. Bradley's efforts on behalf of developer Harold R. Washington, The Times found, have spanned at least the last seven years and primarily involved city-subsidized, low-income housing projects proposed or built by Washington and his associates.