The Chicago Precinct Captain

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This is a story of the attitudes and thoughts of people in politics during the late fifties and sixties. The explosion of the Black population and their steady migration westward from their historic enclaves on the East Side of Chicago was starting to be felt. The river wards controlled b the Italian "Mafia" had enough control left for just one last great surge for the Kennedy election. Shortly after that election they were neutralized and changed by election irregularity investigations and redistricting and the above-mentioned migration. The advent of voting machines throughout Chicagoland also changed the way the old precinct captains could change election results by manipulating paper ballots