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In short: I don’t know. But compared to Gary Rivlin‘s account of the Tribune newsroom after Harold Washington defeated Jane Byrne and Richard M. Daley in the 1983 Democratic mayoral primary, I might prefer Kool-Aid:
“For weeks no one could talk about anything else. The cliché about Chicago was true: its citizens follow local politics with the same fervor they do the Cubs and Bears. Despite the great upset the city had witnessed the night before, the newsroom that morning was quiet and sullen, as if someone had just died. ‘Like attending a wake,’ said Tribune reporter Monroe Anderson. No white, McClain said, could look her in the eye. ‘There was that forced quality, an awkwardness, an end to spontaneity, even fear,” she said. She overheard cracks about declining property values and white flight, jokes she found ‘unforgivably insensitive.’
