As part of my ongoing effort to introduce you to some of the candidates running for mayor—you’ll thank me for this later, Chicago—I was at Wallace’s Catfish Corner talking politics with Robert Shaw one afternoon last week.
“I’m going to tell you something,” Shaw responded. “I don’t think she’s running.
I can’t say that Shaw’s conspiracy theories involving Preckwinkle and Emanuel are true, but I must admit that he probably knows more about Chicago politics than any man or woman in this race, including the mayor.
It was difficult for most people to distinguish one Shaw brother from the other. They even wore identical wigs, though Bob Shaw now goes with the shaved-head look.
He immediately began his political rehabilitation. “I apologized to the people—every chance I got.”
In 1998 Shaw was elected to the Cook County Board of Review, which handles appeals of property tax assessments.
