The nine wards where independents are still battling it out in runoffs with other candidates are (IVI-IPO endorsed candidates in italics) the 4th (incumbent Timothy Evans vs. Tony Preckwinkle), 10th (former alderman John Buchanan vs. Clem Balanoff), 20th (incumbent Arenda Troutman vs. Dino McNeal), 27th (incumbent Sheneather Butler vs. Rickey Hendon), 29th (incumbent Sam Burrell vs. Iola McGowan), 31st (Regner Suarez vs. Gloria Chevere), 37th (incumbent Percy Giles vs. John Baggett), 46th (incumbent Helen Shiller vs. Michael Quigley), and 49th (incumbent Robert Clarke vs. Joe Moore). For the record, IVI-IPO endorsed 22 other candidates in the primary, only four of whom (the incumbents) won.
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Lest we forget. From Ron Weinstock’s review in Living Blues (January/February 1991) of the CD reissue Blues in the Mississippi Night, featuring Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, and Sonny Boy Williamson I: “The performances are really secondary to the conversation, dominated by Slim and Broonzy, and the chilling recollections of the Jim Crow South. Stories about the rigors of the levee camps and the chain gangs are mixed in with a recollection of how, at the places where the Chicago Defender was read, people would keep a lookout in the event it should be necessary to put the Defender in the stove and burn it.”
What, no cluster bombs? From a January 18 letter from the General Accounting Office to U.S. Representative Nick Rahall: “The Secretary of Defense can make available for humanitarian relief purposes any nonlethal excess supplies in DOD’s system.”
But the program notes were the best part! “I would say that 75% of every audience forgets what they just read, when the house lights go down. Generally, I don’t remember the title of what I’m looking at” (Daniel Nagrin in Chicago Dance Coalition, Spring 1991).
