Altgeld

His tenure also coincided with the institution of zero-tolerance discipline policies and the opening of some of the district’s first public military schools, the Carver Military Academy in Altgeld Gardens and the Chicago Military Academy in Bronzeville on the city’s South Side.

“This one’s been going on and off since Governor Altgeld pardoned the rest of the Haymarket activists back in June. They never should have been convicted in the first place. All these people want is to make enough to take care of their families, and to not have to live with their boss’s boot on their back.”

The tea hadn’t even finished steeping before Raizel had asked me if I heard how Governor Altgeld had pardoned the surviving anarchists responsible for the Haymarket bombing back in ’86.

Originally from the South Side of Chicago – the housing projects of Altgeld Gardens – Washington is a 24-year veteran of the U.S.

Authorities said Underwood, 53, moved into the Altgeld Gardens public housing complex two years earlier after she lost her restaurant manager job and was unable to keep her suburban Chicago home.