All Week Long
Chicago Sun-Times | Maureen O’Donnell | Feb 21, 2025
The future politician who later served on the County Board became famous performing with the Impressions, which also included Curtis Mayfield. “Their music was the sound of the Civil Rights Movement,” according to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Jerry Butler’s baritone combined the soaring ecstasy of church, the rumbling rhythms of Chicago and the soul of his native Sunflower, Mississippi. Warm and plush but also cool, it won him the nickname “Iceman.”
The songs of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer became a soundtrack for the 1950s and 1960s. He achieved fame as a member of the Impressions and later as a solo soul artist. His songs have been sampled by others, including Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg, Method Man and the Game.
The Bronzeville resident went on to a 32-year political career as a member of the Cook County Board, helped by backing from Mayor Harold Washington.
Letter to the Editor originally published by Chicago Sun Times | February 17, 2025
Pritzker, Johnson, Preckwinkle are on right side of history
Albert Einstein, who sought a new life in the United States in the 1930s as Hitler’s Nazi party took hold in Germany, said, “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them.”
Donald Trump’s political brand has long been one of gleeful cruelty. Gov. JB Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle have promised to uphold Illinois’s and Chicago’s sanctuary laws, amid Trump’s mass deportations, meaning that our local authorities will not help federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify immigrants who lack legal status.
Originally published by Democrats.org | February 19, 2025
Yesterday, DNC Chair Ken Martin underlined Democrats’ commitment to working Americans in a new memo ahead of his first trip as Chair of the Democratic National Committee, which included a roundtable in Pittsburgh with United Steelworkers. In the memo, Chair Martin warns of the Trump administration’s attacks on workers’ rights and its effects on hardworking Americans and their families — all so that Trump and his billionaire backers can enrich themselves. Trump’s Project 2025 agenda is making it harder for workers to unionize, further tearing away the power of the NLRB and rolling back bedrock worker protections that have been in place for 60 years.
In sharp contrast, Chair Martin emphasized that Democrats must be the party of working people and unite behind the kitchen table issues that connect us all.
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