Marilyn Katz, a behind-the-scenes force in Chicago politics and activism for decades, died Thursday. She was 78.
Long before she became a strategist and consultant who worked with politicians who held sway in City Hall, Springfield and Washington, Ms. Katz was a young radical. At 23, while serving as director of security for Students for a Democratic Society, she was in the mix of antiwar protesters and baton-carrying police outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that devolved into chaos.
