In 1983, Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of the city of Chicago.

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After Harold Washington died suddenly, in his second term, his achievement, such as it was, fell to pieces almost at once.

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Many fans on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, lined up to get into the Harold Washington Cultural Center to watch the event, CNN affiliate WGN reported.

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Black strength at the polls was manifest in the recent wins of Harold Washington in the Chicago Mayoral race and W. Wilson Goode in the Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary.

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The only politician he discusses at any length in his first book is the black man who was mayor of Chicago when Obama first moved there, in 1985, Harold Washington.

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In his first week on the job, Harold Washington lost control of the Chicago city council to a group of rebellious white council members who proceeded to divvy up key committee chairmanships and leave the mayor's supportes out in the cold.

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"The firefighters who responded today were performing a selfless, meaningful service to their community, unaware that a cold-hearted maniac was planning to ambush them and take their lives, " said Harold Schaitberger, general president of the Washington-based International Association of Fire Fighters.

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This report was cited approvingly by left-wing columnist Harold Meyerson in an article he published in the Washington Post on May 17.

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Taking the view that states should go along with the expansion is Sara Rosenbaum, the Harold and Jane Hirsh professor in the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, also in Washington.

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