This is a story of the attitudes and thoughts of people in politics
during the late fi fties and sixties. The explosion of the Black
population and their steady migration westward from their historic
enclaves on the East Side of Chicago was starting to be felt. The
river wards controlled by the Italian Mafi a had enough control left
for just one last great power surge for the Kennedy Election.
Shortly after that election they were neutralized and changed by
election irregularity investigations and redistricting and the abovementioned
migration. The advent of voting machines throughout
Chicagoland also changed the way the old precinct captains could
change election results by manipulating paper ballots.
The characters depicted in this story are not based on any current
or deceased people. Any resemblance is purely coincidental
