Opinion | Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson

Before Chicago’s mayoral election last week, the top two electoral performances in the city (in my eyes) were that of Anton Cermak and Harold Washington.  Cermak, who was born in Bohemia, won his mayoral race in 1931 by defeating then-incumbent William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson. That election marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon power structure...

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