75 years, 10 mayors: How Sun-Times coverage of City Hall evolved

Mayor Harold Washington with a copy of the Chicago Sun-Times declaring him the winner of the 1987 Democratic primary election. Washington would win a second term that year, but die in November. (John H. White/Sun-Times)

Look at the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times for Monday, May 15. Inauguration Day, the day Brandon Johnson would be sworn in as the city’s 57th mayor. What don’t you see?

Well, no beaming mayoral portrait, for starters. No gushing headline, “A new era” or some such thing. The main page-one story is about a suburban mom with kidney failure.