The Nation - News from Jan. 25, 1989

The Rev. Jesse Jackson gave his long-awaited endorsement to black Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer in the Feb. 28 Chicago primary and urged voters to defeat a challenge from the son of the “Boss” who ran Chicago for two decades. “I choose to stand with this rainbow coalition of political and community leaders and endorse Mayor Eugene Sawyer for reelection,” Jackson said as the South Side crowd chanted “Sawyer! Sawyer! Sawyer!” The former Democratic presidential candidate said Cook County State’s Atty. Richard M. Daley--son of legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley, who became known as the “Boss” of Chicago politics--must be defeated at all cost. Jackson stopped short of saying whether he would continue to support Sawyer in the general election on April 4, should Sawyer defeat Daley and face another black, Alderman Timothy Evans.