A DNA test kit revealed to Chicago woman Cindy O'Gara, that she is a distant relative of Catherine O'Leary, an Irishwoman who was blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire. She connected with her birth father’s two sisters, who recalled family stories and the tale that has haunted generations of the O’Learys.
No matter if it’s music, movies, or literature, many people go to popular art for a brief escape from their own lives. There are various reports, however,
Ed Burke was born into the machine. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the younger Burke grew up in a home steeped in Chicago’s particular street-level realpolitik: Smooth over potholes, fix up friends with patronage jobs, and make sure everyone who benefited knew how to vote — and for whom to vote. At its zenith during Mayor Richard J. Daley’s era, Chicago’s political .