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In the 1986 Cook County Sheriff election, incumbent fourth-term sheriff Richard Elrod, a Democrat, was defeated by Republican James E. O'Grady. O'Grady became the first Republican elected to a countywide executive office in Cook County since Bernard Carey was elected to his final term as Cook County State's Attorney in 1976.
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois. ... Then, future editor Jack Fuller won a Pulitzer for editorial writing in 1986.
Freedom Center, also known as the Chicago Tribune Publishing Center, is the printing plant and headquarters for the Chicago Tribune, as well as the printing facility for other publications such as the Chicago Sun-Times. It closed May 2024 and is currently in the middle of demolition to replace the Freedom Center with Bally's Chicago Casino.
Illinois voters voted on two ballot measures in 1986, [14] both of them legislatively referred constitutional amendments. In order to be approved, measures required either 60% support among those specifically voting on the amendment or 50% support among all ballots cast in the elections.
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Robert Gerald Goldsborough (born October 3, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist and writer of mystery novels.He worked for 45 years for the Chicago Tribune and Advertising Age, but gained prominence as the author of a series of 17 authorized pastiches of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe detective stories, published from 1986 to 1994 and from 2012 to 2023.
Marquette Park is the largest park on Chicago's southwest side and is in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.The neighborhood is also called Marquette Park by most locals. The neighborhood was developed primarily in 1920s; it consists mostly of bungalows and single-family housing.
The 1986 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1986. Republican candidate James R. Thompson won a fourth term in office, defeating the Illinois Solidarity Party nominee, former United States Senator Adlai Stevenson III , by around 400,000 votes.