Harold Washington's death 30 years ago marked end of Chicago's black political power

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Harold Washington, Chicago’s charismatic first black mayor, died 30 years ago on the day before Thanksgiving. He was a remarkable man, a child of the Chicago Democratic Machine who broke that machine to his will.

There are prominent black elected officials in Chicago. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx and also Kurt Summers, the city treasurer, to name a few.

And that fellow who learned his politics here and was himself belittled in ugly racial terms, not by whites, but by black Chicago Democrats: Barack Obama, who was told he wasn’t black enough.

“But the scars on the black community haven’t healed,” Roderick Sawyer said. “They should have treated my father better. … After that rally, it was over. And 30 years later, we haven’t had a serious black candidate for the office of mayor.” This isn’t the rosy version of Chicago history. But that’s what happened in those days after Harold Washington died.

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