Flashback: Chicago Mob Linked Alderman Burke Was Called a Twerp By Mayor Harold Washington

Flashback 1987 to the New York Times:

''I'll break his neck with one little finger,'' Mayor Washington said recently. ''He's a twerp.'' He referred to Alderman Edward Burke, who had recalled Mr. Washington's four-year-old description of a mayoral limousine as ''obscene'' and then noted that the same vehicle now transports Mr. Washington's ''fat 250-pound frame.''

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