Golden (2012)
“But as a youngster, Blagojevich was looking for a way out of Cragin. Test scores shut him out of a high-end university, and he wasn’t going to be playing point guard for the Bulls or center field for the Cubs. Blagojevich feared getting sucked into the neighborhood’s lifestyle and locked into a working-class job and common life.
At the University of Tampa, though, he began to gain some traction. He got good grades and dreamed of coming back to Chicago to make a life for himself—possibly in poli...tics. Back home for winter break in 1976, Rod Blagojevich got absorbed along with the rest of the city with the news that Mayor Richard J. Daley had died. Daley had been mayor for twenty-one years, and his death caused a vacuum of power. One of the city’s black aldermen, Wilson Frost, declared he would be the city’s acting mayor, based on his reading of the city charter and the fact that he was president pro tempore of the city council. But Chicago wasn’t ready for a black mayor—at least the white-majority city council wasn’t—and they refused to allow Frost into the mayor’s office.MoreLess
At the University of Tampa, though, he began to gain some traction. He got good grades and dreamed of coming back to Chicago to make a life for himself—possibly in poli...tics. Back home for winter break in 1976, Rod Blagojevich got absorbed along with the rest of the city with the news that Mayor Richard J. Daley had died. Daley had been mayor for twenty-one years, and his death caused a vacuum of power. One of the city’s black aldermen, Wilson Frost, declared he would be the city’s acting mayor, based on his reading of the city charter and the fact that he was president pro tempore of the city council. But Chicago wasn’t ready for a black mayor—at least the white-majority city council wasn’t—and they refused to allow Frost into the mayor’s office.MoreLess
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