This 1978 documentary classic is an inside look at the old-style Chicago Machine politics of the Richard J. Daley era, w | dG1fbWpPVEV2b0hhc2c
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00:00This is the 25th Ward of Chicago.
00:08It includes the area of National Avenue on the east, Sacramento Boulevard on the west,
00:14and from the Eisenhower Expressway on the north to the Chicago River on the south,
00:19about four square miles with 55,000 people in a lot of urban industry.
00:25The 25th Ward is the home of Alderman Vito Marzullo.
00:29He's lived in this neighborhood for 68 years since he came from Italy.
00:33He has served in the city council as Alderman for the past 25 years.
00:37He's also the head of the 25th Ward Regular Democratic Organization as Ward Commitment.
00:43Vito Marzullo has been an important and colorful Chicago politician for decades.
00:48The program was taped when Alderman Vito Marzullo was 80 years old.
00:52And I am John Damagala, and I've been Alderman Marzullo's personal secretary for the last 18 years
00:5818 years with pleasure.
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01:14The man and his world.
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01:19The man and his world.
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01:24The man and his world.