No mayor has welcomed it more enthusiastically than Richard M. Daley does. The current mayor belongs to a circle of film buffs who regularly discuss videos and he slips into theaters incognito every week or two. Sweet location Chicago. Proceeds benefit the Sun-Times Charitable Foundation to promote literacy programs throughout the Chicago area. The school system shuts down as teachers strike over proposed layoffs and delinquent paychecks.
Auditors say that they warned the district about looming deficits.
The strike ends Feb. 11. It began when Mayor Jane Byrne demanded a no-strike clause in contract. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy goes to Death Row for the murders of 33 young men and boys. More than 3,000 people lose their jobs when the Southeast Side's Wisconsin Steel plant shuts down. Millionaire businessman Bruce Rouse and wife Darlene are found shotgunned and stabbed to death in their Libertyville home.