[Dempsy Travis – Harold Washington]
Collection of revealing scenes of various Chicago politicians. The film focuses mainly on mayors and mayoral candidates of the 1980s including Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, Edward “Fast Eddie” Vrdolyak, and Thomas Hynes. In true Chicago style, the looming presence of long-time, now late, mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley makes an appearance. Includes some invaluable footage, especially of when Harold Washington’s many speeches. Particularly revealing are scenes of racial upheaval during the time surrounding Harold Washington’s election and mayorship.
This news report covers the democratic primary for the 1987 Chicago mayoral election, focusing on the role that race will play in the upcoming elections.
This video contains two news segments – the first segment covers a local Chicago runner, and the second segment reports on the election of Gus Savage and Harold Washington in the 1980 Democratic primary elections for U.S. Congress.
This series of four news reports covers a variety of topics, including the fight between competing phone companies after the breakup of the Bell System, the tiring campaigns of the three main Democratic candidates for the 1984 presidential election, a hotel strike in Las Vegas, and Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign.
Reporter Elizabeth Brackett attends a Chicago city council meeting, where she speaks to Jim Houlihan, who was sent the meeting to represent Congressman Harold Washington.
This is a compilation of news reports from WGN on a variety of topics, including local Chicago news as well as national news stories.