![[News compilation: DNC – runner – upsets]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/652247528_640-228x160.jpg)
This video contains two news segments – the first segment covers a local Chicago runner, and the second segment reports on the election of Gus Savage and Harold Washington in the 1980 Democratic primary elections for U.S. Congress.
This series of four news reports covers a variety of topics, including the fight between competing phone companies after the breakup of the Bell System, the tiring campaigns of the three main Democratic candidates for the 1984 presidential election, a hotel strike in Las Vegas, and Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign.
![[WGN news compilation]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653938617_640-228x160.jpg)
This is a compilation of news reports from WGN on a variety of topics, including local Chicago news as well as national news stories.
![[Harold Washington’s Funeral]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/651536282_640-228x160.jpg)
![[Satirical portrait of Harold Washington removed from Art Institute]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653938235_640-228x160.jpg)
A report on the uproar over a portrait of the late Mayor Harold Washington wearing women’s underwear in a student art show at the Art Institute of Chicago.
![[Washington administration voter registration scandal]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653938267_640-228x160.jpg)
CHA residents accuse the Harold Washington administration of requiring them to register voters in order to receive city employment.
![[Chicago mayoral primary 1987]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653938269_640-228x160.jpg)
![[Harold Washington on election day ’86]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653938258_640-228x160.jpg)
On election day 1986, Mayor Harold Washington casts his vote, talks about the future of the Democratic Party in Chicago, urges citizens to vote, and joins Jesse Jackson at a campaign event.