Leon Despres, Chicago Rebel
Against The Current vol. 143

Fried, Frank
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2453
Date Written:  2009-11-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2009
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13584

Iconic Chicago alderman Leon Despres died at the age of 101 on May 6, 2009 in the city he lived and loved. A little frail in stature, Len had a broad intellect that was fully intact to the very end. He fought much of his adult life for a progressive vision of Chicago that “Machine” politics was never ready to accept. After his 1955 election as alderman, and in the first decade of his two-decade term, many city council votes were recorded 49-1. Despres was the lone dissenter.

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