An odd coalition

It may not have been as odd as the current Israeli coalition, but the anti-administration group in the Chicago City Council in 1971 included people who didn’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of things.

It consisted of White, Independent Progressives: Leon Despres (5th), Bill Singer (43rd), and Dick Simpson (44th); Black, Independent Progressives: Bill Cousins (8th) and Anna Langford (16th); White Independent Conservative: Francis Lawlor (15th); Republicans: Casimir Stazczuk (13th), Joseph Potempa (23rd), Ed Scholl (41st), John Hoellen (47th), and Jack Sperling (50th); and a Democrat: Seymour Simon (40th).

What they all had in common was opposition to the administration of Mayor Richard J. Daley.