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Harold Washington’s 100th birthday: Key things to know about Chicago’s first Black mayor
It additionally set off a bitter struggle over his successor: Per week after Washington’s demise, Ald. Eugene Sawyer was chosen as performing mayor on the finish of an all-night Metropolis Council assembly that noticed, because the Tribune reported on the time, “uncooked political energy enjoying at its final, full with demise threats, insults, shouting, arm-waving, boasts and bravado within the chamber.”