Debra Lawlor

“Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town...Polacks would stomp on you...Micks will shower you with Irish confetti from the brickyards.”
― Mike Royko, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

“If the regular pay was important to him, the opportunity to learn was of even greater long-range significance.”
― Mike Royko, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

“Later, when they sat down and went over the figures closely, they found an interesting pattern. Adamowski had received fifty-one percent of the votes, cast by white persons. But the enormous black vote had given Daley his victory. The people who were trapped in the ghetto slums and the nightmarish public housing projects, the people who had the worst school system and were most often degraded by the Police Department, the people who received the fewest campaign promises and who were ignored as part of the campaign trail, had given him his third term. They had done it quietly, asking for nothing in return. Exactly what they got.”
― Mike Royko, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago