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Politicized as an antiwar activist in Wisconsin and then a member of a collective of white allies of the
Black Panther Party in Chicago, HELEN SHILLER was elected to the city council in 1987, where she helped fight gentrification and the racialized opposition to Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor. Offering important insights into historic community organizing and political battles in Chicago from the 1970s through 2010, this compelling account illuminates recurrent political themes that remain relevant today, as a new generation of radical alderpersons make headlines across the city.

978-1-64259-842-1 • 500 pages