It’s finally over. Harold Washington has won the election, renewed his expired driver’s license, and paid his income tax. Loser Bernard Epton, in a parting shot, has called reporters who brought his psychological serenity into question “idiots” and “slime” and flown off to Florida. Richard Daley’s supporters tell us to wait till next time. And Jane Byrne’s husband will soon have to start looking for a job.
That wasn’t the way the script was supposed to have ended. A few months back, it went like this: Jane Byrne would win renomination easily. And since voting Republicans in Chicago are about as numerous as bald-headed television anchormen with squints, City Hall would have been hers for another term.
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