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Helen Shiller is alderman on the Chicago City Council of the 46th Ward of the City of Chicago; she was first elected in 1987.
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Shiller was born in 1947[1] and raised on Long Island[2] in New York[3]. Shiller she grew up in a middle-class family.[4] Shiller's parents were home owners.[2] Shiller's father, Morris, was a self-employed chemist. Her father "perfected fake suede." Morris Shiller emigrated to the United States from Latvia. Morris Shiller lost every member of his family in the Holocaust, with the exception of a brother who didn't turn up until 20 years after World War II ended.[2]
Shiller earned her high school diploma in 1965 from Woodstock County School in Vermont, the same progressive boarding school that Pete Seeger's children attended.[2] Shiller graduated with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was active in the anti-Vietnam war movement.[4] In 2005, Shiller graduated from DePaul University's School for New Learning Master's Program, where her focus was public policy.[5]
Shiller moved to Chicago's Uptown neighborhood in 1972[2][4] or 1976[6] with her husband Marc Zalkin and her infant son, Brendan.[2] Shiller lived on N Malden Street in Uptown. Shiller drove a cab[2] and worked as a waitress and free lance photographer,[6] and jumped into radical politics. With one of Chicago's most controversial political organizers, Walter "Slim" Coleman, Shiller helped organize the Intercommunal Survival Committee, a sort of white support arm of the Black Panther Party. The committee evolved into the Heart of Uptown Coalition, a political and social service organization then steeped in the rhetoric of Marxism. In the coalition, "comrades" were expected to organize "cadres" and maintain - in Shiller's words back then - the "frame of mind" of revolutionaries. The Uptown Coalition provided an array of programs geared toward providing essential services for the poor, including medical clinics for pregnant women, mothers and young children; a legal aid clinic, food pantries[4] and distributing clothes and meals to the poor.[3] Shiller and her allies have labored for decades to preserve Uptown as the last North Side lakefront neighborhood south of Rogers Park that is home to significant numbers of poor folks.[7]
Shiller supported Michael Bakalis in his 1978 primary challenge to Illinois Governor James R. Thompson, attacking Thompson for "making deals with the Chicago machine" and for being unsympathetic to the urban poor.[8]
Shiller helped open an extension of Shimer College at 4833 N Broadway in the Fall of 1978.[9]
Shiller took on Illinois' dentists when in 1978 the Uptown Peoples Community Services Center joined consumers groups in a federal lawsuit which attempted to break up the dentists' monopoly on fitting dentures.[10]
From 1981 to 1987, Shiller was President and CEO of Justice Graphics, Inc. a print shop, a small business of which Shiller and Coleman were two of five owners.[4]
Shiller recalled in 2003:
I was as student in the sixties, engaged in the civil rights movement, anti-Vietnam War protests. I'd come from New York to attend the University of Wisconsin. It was an exciting time. A lot of active students wound up in different cities and communities as organizers. I chose Racine, Wisconsin. I spent three years there. We had developed a legal clinic and we had a whole health program, but the city was too small. I had, of course, heard about Uptown in Chicago, and the challenges. So I wound up here in 1976. I waited tables. I did photography, took pictures for attorneys. Ultimately we started our own print shop in order to print our own newspapers and magazines.[6]
A special election was called for May 16, 1978 in the 46th Ward when Alderman Chris Cohen, first elected in 1971, was re-elected in 1975 but retired in mid-term to head the Chicago regional office of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare[11]. On March 6, 1978 Ralph Axelrod, chief administrative assistant to Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod[11], and ward committeeman since 1973, slated himself for alderman.
At the time, Shiller was 30 years old[11] and the editor of Keep Strong, a leftist magazine.[1] Shiller's first attempt at elected office was to join a multi-way challenge to Axelrod.[12] Shiller had much of the support that ex-street gang leader Jose "Cha Cha" Jimenez had in Jimenez' unsuccessful challenge to incumbent Alderman Cohen in the 1975 elections. Shiller's base of support was the center of the ward, an area of poverty where families lived crowded together in large and mostly rundown apartment buildings between Broadway and Clark Street. Shiller promised to work to keep the poor of Uptown from being displaced by real estate developers who were reportedly planning to develop the area for middle and upper class living.[11]
Independents including Aldermen Dick Simpson (44th), Martin Oberman (43rd), and Ross Lathrop (5th), and former alderman and mayoral candidate William Singer (43rd), endorsed Angela Turley, founder of the Organization of the Northeast (ONE), a community group. Turley was also unanimously endorsed by the 46th Ward Citizens Search Committee, a group of 50 ward residents who interviewed 10 candidates.[13] A three-way race for alderman of the 46 ward remained between Axelrod, Shiller, and former television news reporter Michael Horowitz, after Turley and another candidate Carl Lezak, a former priest[14] and former director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), were stricken from the ballot by the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners, Turley for failure to file an economic interest statement.[15]
Shiller charged that the regular Democratic organization used unfair campaign practices against her, challenging about 100 of the 400 new voters she helped register, removing her campaign posters, and "machine workers" telling store owners to remove her signs.[16] The Chicago Tribune endorsed Axelrod, noting Shiller "runs primarily as a champion of the poor."[17] Lezak ran as a write-in candidate in an attempt to draw enough votes off Axelrod to force a run-off.[18] Axelrod defeated Shiller receiving 5,575 votes or 54.5% to Shiller's 3,475 votes. Lezak received nine votes and ended up spending election night in jail as a result of an altercation in a polling place with a Democratic precinct captain over an alleged election law violation.[19]
"I ran for alderman of this [46th] ward in 1978. I was terrified. I was very shy, afraid to speak to more than five people at a time," Shiller recalled in 2003.[6]
Shiller and Turley challenged Axelrod in 1979.[20] An extra alarm fire early on Friday, February 9, 1979, weeks before the election, caused extensive damage to the building containing Shiller's campaign headquarters and left 15 homeless.[21] The Chicago Tribune endorsed Axelrod.[22] No candidate received a majority of the vote in the three-way race in February, 1979, resulting in a run-off between Shiller (6,852 votes; 46%) and Axelrod (6,088 votes; 40%).[23] The Chicago Tribune[24] and Turley[25] endorsed Axelrod in the run-off. The Chicago Tribune wrote that "Ms. Shiller's program shares many elements with that of the Black Panthers and appears to be based on hopes of an eventual "revolution" [not defined]."[24] Turley described Axelrod as "the lesser of two evils in the race now."[25] Axelrod challenged 1,060 voter registrations on the ward's rolls, and 931 of the challenges were upheld by the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners. Axelrod enlisted 40 volunteer attorneys and 200 off-duty policemen to challenge ghost voting in a project he called "Operation Safeguard."[26] Axelrod defeated Shiller in the run-off by 247 votes.[1]
Shiller recalled in 2003:
I won the primary, but not with fifty-one percent of the vote. We had a runoff and I lost by two hundred votes - to a machine candidate. We were bringing fresh ideas, but we were not experienced in fighting the machine on election day. I swore I'd never run for alderman again. There was so much racial baiting that it was terrifying. I was called names. ... My posters had black paint all over them with racial epithets. It was very disturbing.[6]
In the 1983 municipal elections Shiller was employed by Harold Washington's campaign as the campaign organizer for the 46th Ward in Washington's successful first campaign for Mayor of Chicago. Shiller, operator of a print shop, Justice Graphics Inc., published the heartily pro-Washington All-Chicago City News,[27] a 40,000 circulation left-wing, bilingual, biweekly newspaper[28][29] edited by Shiller and Walter "Slim" Coleman. Coleman formed a plan to register 100,000 new voters for Washington by canvassing public aid offices[30] and became a close advisor to candidate and Mayor Harold Washington.[31] Justice Graphics printed the campaign literature for Washington's first mayoral campaign.[2]
Alderman Axelrod quit the City Council to take a job in the sheriff's office just before the 1983 election. Community activist Charlotte Newfeld and Jerome Orbach went to a run-off, which Orbach won by 66 votes.[1]
"Harold [Washington] was mayor, and he was harping on me to run for alderman," Shiller recalled in 2003.[6] Shiller, Nancy Kaszak, and Gerald Pechenuk challenged pro-Vrdolyak[32] incumbent Alderman Jerome Orbach in 1987.[33][34] Kaszak was a lawyer, a former vice president of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, a Mayor Harold Washington appointee to the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, a leader of the Lakeview Citizens' Council[27], and president of Citizens United for Baseball in Sunshine (CUBS),[35] which opposed night baseball at Wrigley Field.[36] Newfeld, Orbach's challenger from 1983, co-chaired Kaszak's campaign.[37] Pechenuk was a consultant for Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. for 12 years, and was treasurer of LaRouche-supported Sheila Jones's mayoral campaign.[35] Shiller challenged Pechenuk's nominating petitions.[38][39]
Shiller got Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus driver John Paczkowski suspended after Paczkowski asked a Shiller campaign worker to refrain from holding up the bus to distribute Shiller flyers. Working the bus stop at 4250 N Marine Drive with Shiller was the architect husband of CTA Board member Natalia Delgado. Shiller complained to Delgado, and Delgado complained to CTA management.[40]
Shiller was one of 18 incumbent aldermen and 5 challengers endorsed by Mayor Harold Washington.[41] Washington appeared at a rally for himself and Shiller[42] at which Shiller announced her candidacy.[43] The Chicago Sun-Times endorsed Kaszak,[44] as did the Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization (IVI-IPO), the National Organization of Women (NOW), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), former 46th Ward aldermanic candidate Charlotte Newfeld, and former aldermen William Singer and Dick Simpson.[1] The Chicago Tribune endorsed Orbach.[45]
Shiller charged that Orbach catered to developers, displacing people in the wake of rehabilitation that priced housing out of the reach of many, and said she wanted community zoning boards, with their decisions binding on the alderman.[35] Shiller charged that most of Orbach's campaign war chest had come from developers and regular Democrats outside the ward.[46]
No candidate received a majority of the vote in the four-way race in February, 1987, resulting in a run-off between Orbach (40%) and Shiller (38%).[47][48] Kaszak endorsed Shiller,[46] although many of Kaszak's followers supported Orbach.[1] No alderman tried harder than Orbach to portray himself on both sides of the political fence.[1] Orbach attempted to stage a public conversion to a pro-Washington position.[46] Some prominent independents, such as retiring Ald. Marion Volini (48th), state Rep. Ellis Levin and state Sen. William Marovitz, endorsed Orbach, as did the Chicago Sun-Times[49] and Chicago Tribune.[50]
"His [Orbach's] relationship to large real estate developers is very important. He's become more of an advocate for people outside of the ward than for people here," Shiller charged.[51]
Some of Orbach's allies spread the absurd rumor, aimed at Jewish voters, that Shiller would use the power of City Hall to try to transform Israel into a Palestinian state. Shiller's forces called Orbach a racist, an accusation that had no substantiation, considering the large number of blacks who had backed Orbach in his early campaigns.[52]
Shiller recalled in 2003:
The machine alderman who won in 1983 [Orbach] had a chief of staff who was engaging in racial organizing. There were white gangs up here. One of them he helped organize into a consciously racially white-power gang. They hooked up with both the Klan and the Nazi Party.[6]
In the months leading up to the election, Shiller supporter Bob Parnell, head of the Center for Street People, 4455 N. Broadway, and the Heart of Uptown Coalition registered to vote 80 homeless people using the Center's address, and on election day fed them a meal at a local church and helped them vote.[53] Jesus People USA, a 500-member commune/business/charity/religious group with many members living in the ward, had supported Orbach throughout his career, but suddenly switched to Shiller before the run-off. Jesus People spokesman Dennis Cadieux explained "We think Jerry Orbach is a lovely man, but he doesn't have what it takes to stand up to the development...If things keep going there will be massive displacement. People will be thrown out of their homes. We decided that Helen Shiller would do the most to prevent displacement."[54] Orbach supporters charged that a City official had offered City contracts to the Jesus People's construction firm if Shiller were elected. On Tuesday, April 7, 1987 Shiller defeated Orbach by 498 votes, 9,751 to 9,253.[1]
In Shiller's first budget cycle, in November, 1987, Shiller recommended to the Committee on the Budget of the City Council that the City cancel a federal grant for a community group in Uptown that was a rival of her own group. The action came while the Budget Committee was approving the distribution of $95.1 million in federal spending for community projects, as part of the Community Development Block Grant package. Shiller requested that the committee deny the Uptown Chicago Commission (UCC) its entire grant of $20,000, which would have been used to pay the salary of a staff person to help residents, including senior citizens, get money for home improvements. Shiller conceded the 32-year-old Uptown Chicago Commission had criticized her in the past. The Uptown Chicago Commission had long been at loggerheads with the Heart of Uptown Coalition, of which Shiller was co-chairman with Walter "Slim" Coleman. Ald. Kathy Osterman (48th), part of whose ward is also served by the Uptown Chicago Commission, asked the Budget Committee to award the group the $20,000 as recommended by Mayor Harold Washington in his community block grant recommendations. The Uptown Chicago Commission's application had already been reviewed and approved at three levels in the city bureaucracy.[55] Shiller accused the Uptown Chicago Commission of helping developers displace low-income Uptown residents.[56] After heated debate, the Budget Committee voted 9-5 in favor of Shiller's amendment to remove the entire grant for the Uptown organization.[55]
After the death of Mayor Washington, Shiller was a supporter of Ald. Timothy C. Evans (4th), who was defeated by Ald. Eugene Sawyer (6th) for Mayor.[56] Weeks later, at the first City Council meeting under Mayor Eugene Sawyer, the funding for the Uptown Chicago Commission was restored.[57] Shiller said restoring the grant to the Uptown Chicago Commission would affect the 48th Ward, but not her ward. "I was not going to have them operating in the 46th," Shiller said. Shiller said she reached an agreement to keep the Uptown Chicago Commission out of her ward several days before Washington's death. "Mayor Sawyer had nothing to do with this," Shiller claimed. "He had recommended no changes."[56]
As early as 1966 Uptown was among the possible sites proposed for a northeast-side commuter campus in the City Colleges of Chicago community college district. (Other sites considered included other sites adjacent to north side Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) stations, a former hospital on the lakefront, the site of the former Riverview Park and the Edgewater Golf Course in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, currently Warren Park).[58] The Uptown site west of the Wilson Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) station was opposed by those concerned for the displacement of low income residents, largely blacks, southern whites and American Indians.[59] The project was mired in heated controversy for decades.[60] Avery v Pierce, a federal lawsuit filed in 1975[61], claimed that the demolition for the construction of Harry S Truman College in Uptown resulted in the loss of about 3,000 low-income housing units and alleging that city and Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) funds were misspent developing Truman College.[62] Plaintiffs were represented by Shiller's former campaign manager, attorney James P. Chapman[63][64] of the Uptown Peoples Law Center.[65]
In 1985 Randall H. Langer, a young developer active in apartment rehabilitation in the neighborhood, aided the creation of a local historic district, the Sheridan Park Historic District, which foes said was of dubious historical value. They charged the district was created merely to facilitate gentrification, which would force out low-income people.[66] Nineteen tax delinquent properties in Uptown were offered for sale by auction by Cook County in Fall, 1987. Langer deposited an irrevocable minimum cash bid of $114,000 on the vacant lots with the County Treasurer.[55]
Since 1983 Cook County had a program which allowed local governments to obtain tax delinquent property for almost nothing during the county's tax delinquent property scavenger sale. To obtain a property, the local government must have a specific plan for developing it.[55] On October 28, 1987, Shiller heatedly urged the Tax Delinquency Subcommittee of the Cook County Board to accept a no-cash bid for the 19 tax-delinquent parcels in Uptown. A decision was deferred. County Commissioner Rosemarie Love requested the delay on grounds the Washington administration had not spelled out its plan for the properties. Subcommittee chairman County Commissioner Richard Siebel said the County's no-cash sales program was "designed to place property back on the tax rolls as quickly as possible - not for land-banking. It's not appropriate for us to pass this until the city tells us, parcel by parcel, what they intend to do and how they plan to pay for it." County Commissioner Harold Tyrrell added, "Properties we gave to the city 12 years ago are still war zones. I don't want the same thing to happen here."[62] County Commissioner Chuck Bernardini, a Chicago Democrat, pointed out that the City already owned 7,000 tax-delinquent lots.[67]
Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator Mike Royko wrote in the Chicago Tribune:
One of the most depressing sections of Chicago is the Uptown area on the North Side. Shabby apartment buildings, vacant stores, wino bars, littered vacant lots, junkies, muggers, and career down-and-outers. It also has a new alderman, Helen Shiller, and she has a vision of what that seedy old neighborhood should be in the future. And apparently her vision is that Uptown should remain a seedy old neighborhood.[68]
In City Council, Shiller attempted to head off the judge's decision in Avery v Pierce by proposing an ordinance that directed the city to settle and accept a consent decree.[69][70] The consent decree would have put most vacant parcels in Uptown into a land bank for future affordable housing, administered by a community development corporation, funded by the City with $100,000 over two years.[61] The consent decree also would have established a "desirable" goal of 3,000 low-income units there. On November 16, 1987, the Committee on Finance of the Chicago City Council, chaired at the time by Shiller ally Ald. Timothy Evans, voted 21 to 2 to recommend to the full City Council that the City Council direct the city to execute the consent decree.[63] Shiller gloated during committee hearings that, with Mayor Harold Washington's backing, the decree could not be stopped. The proposal was on the brink of passage when Washington died. Weeks later, on December 9, 1987, at the first regular business meeting of the City Council of the post-Washington era, Washington foes brought the proposal out of committee with the express intention of killing it. Ald. Bernard Stone (50th), who joined Alderman Osterman in blocking the agreement, told the Council he was opposed because Shiller's "arrogance prevailed and that arrogance has to be answered on this floor." The consent decree was rejected by the Council 29-17.[61][71][72]
Shiller's proposal was criticized in a series of editorials.[67][69][73] The Chicago Tribune called the proposal "silly," editorializing:
It would have enabled her [Shiller] to strangle commercial development in her Uptown ward and keep it poor. ... It was a flagrantly bad idea and deserved its defeat. It would have put Helen Shiller and her sidekick, Slim Coleman, in charge of a "community development corporation" whose avowed purpose would be to block private investment in the 46th Ward and use all available space for low-cost housing. This would consolidate their own power by ensuring a constituency of poor and dependent voters.[73]
In 2003 Shiller explained the editorials:
When I first became alderman, there was a developer up here who felt very threatened by me. He hired a publicist to really go after me. Any time I talked about development without displacement, they would ream me. They went to the press and got some of the most vicious editorials published.[6]
Not only did the desired properties not go to the affordable housing advocates, but many went to one of the local players Shiller and allies disliked most.[66] On December 3, 1987 16 of the parcels were sold to private bidders at Cook County's annual scavenger sale. Langer and partnerships Langer controlled bought 13 of the parcels.[74]
Shiller backed a group of 50 to 75 people including more than 40 homeless people and six children who erected a "tent city" from doors and wood on a vacant lot at 4425 N. Malden to illustrate the plight of the homeless.[75] Shiller was among five arrested, charged with trespassing, and released on Friday, October 14, 1989, when police, called by the owner, evicted about 100 protesters from the lot.[76] Shiller spent "about two minutes" in jail, and charges were dropped.[2]
When Richard M. Daley was elected Mayor of Chicago in 1989, Shiller was one of a handful of aldermen to oppose passage of one of his first budgets.[citation needed]
In 1989, Shiller sponsored a resolution creating a sub-committee on Domestic Violence. Since that resolution, the Chicago Police Department invested in a computerized domestic violence incident tracking system and the city now funds domestic violence counselling centers and programs for supervised visitations.[citation needed]
In 1991, Shiller supported Danny K. Davis in Davis' unsuccessful primary challenge to Daley.[77] Daley supported Shiller's challenger, Michael Quigley. Shiller won with 53% of the vote in a runoff election, amid charges that Quigley was a carpetbagger.[3]
Shiller won her 1995 re-election bid with 57% of the vote.[3]
In 1999, Sandra Reed, a black high school English teacher, opposed Shiller. Shiller won with 55 percent of the vote in a runoff.[3]
Shiller was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame as a “Friend of the Community” in 2000.[78]
In the 2001 redistricting of Chicago wards, Daley had hoped to redraw the map so as to deprive Shiller of her most committed supporters in the 2003 city council elections.[3] However, this backfired when none of the (pro-Daley) aldermen in wards surrounding the 46th wanted to contend with "her" supporters.[3] Shiller and Daley, however, reached an understanding: the mayor supported her in the 2003 elections and also pushed forward development of Wilson Yards, a vacant lot in her district into a Target store and affordable housing.[3] Shiller has consistently voted with the mayor ever since.[3] In 2004, Daley gave her control over the Wilson Yard Tax Increment Financing District and the $26.5 million it generated.[3]
Shiller's alliance with Daley paid off and she defeated Reed again in 2003, this time with 58% of the vote.[3]
In 2007, still allied with Daley, she narrowly defeated James Cappleman, a social worker and community activist, with 53% of the vote. The alliance with Shiller benefited Daley in the election also, as he won 79% of the vote in the 46th ward, running ahead of the 72% he received citywide.[3]
Shiller has been described as "committed to liberal causes" appropriate for the lakefront district she represents.[3] She worked for the passing for the human rights ordinance, recycling programs and city responsibility for public health and safety in the Chicago Public Schools. She initiated an anti-apartheid ordinance in 1990 and added a budget amendment to triple to city's AIDS budget in 1992. She co-sponsored the domestic partners ordinance which extends benefits for unmarried couples.
Shiller has recently worked with the Department of Housing to develop the Planned Purchase Assistance Program, which provides opportunities for home ownership to working families.
Criticism of Shiller in the 2007 election was largely focused on the lack of communication to ward residents, failure to obtain ongoing input from residents for zoning changes in the ward, her lack of involvement in CAPS meetings, and the many years of blighted retail in the ward. Some critics also charge that "she's keeping Uptown a slum by making it hard for developers to put up their projects."[3] (The 46th ward is sharply divided between wealthy residents who live along Lake Michigan and poorer residents who live west of Sheridan Road.[3]) The columnist Mike Royko once charged that "Shiller's main motive was that she was building a political power base which included as many winos as she could drag to the voting booth."[3] She has not, however, been indicted for voting irregularities.[3] She has been accused of "using the Wilson Yard project to cram the area with poor people to maintain her political base."[3] The neighborhood of Uptown is home to two R.E.S.T. shelters, one Salvation Army shelter, one Salvation Army day center for the homeless, four Cornerstone shelters, a transitional shelter program from Inspiration Cafe, a transitional housing program located at 1207 W. Leland for active drug users with mental illness from Heartland Alliance, another transitional housing program located at 1325 W. Wilson from Heartland Alliance, four nursing homes for people with mental illness, and numerous large SRO buildings, many of them for people living with mental illness. When looking at the number of social services in the ward, its rate is approximately 5 times higher than what is found in other wards. In 2000, a CURL study cited that 18% of the housing in Uptown is subsidized. Other wards average around 5% of their housing as subsidized.
In 2009, Shiller came under increasing criticism from Uptown constituents for her perceived lack of engagement to address recent surgences of crime in the neighborhood (including a string of inceasingly violent robberies in nearby Lakeview that attracted the attention of the Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times, and local TV news).[79]
Shiller serves on eight committees: Budget and Government Operations; Buildings; Committees, Rules and Ethics; Finance; Health; Housing and Real Estate; Human Relations; and License and Consumer Protection.
Shiller separated from her husband Mark Zalkin, one of the Mayor Harold Washington's assistant press secretaries, and with Shiller a leader of the 46th Ward Community Service Center (later the Uptown Community Service Center) and an editor of Keep Strong magazine, and with Shiller and Coleman an editor of All-Chicago City News. Zalkin passed on February 23, 1998 at the age of 49 due to complications from multiple sclerosis.[80]
Shiller and Zalkin have one son, Brendan Shiller.[4][80] Brendan Shiller attended Joseph Stockton Elementary School, a Chicago Public School,[29] and Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, a highly selective-enrollment Chicago public magnet high school and academic center located in Chicago's Near West Side. While attending Truman College, Brendan Shiller was managing editor of All-Chicago City News.[29] For two years starting in February, 1997 Brendan Shiller edited StreetWise, a street newspaper sold by people without homes or those at-risk for homelessness in Chicago.[81] Brendan Shiller cashed in the 37th Annual World Series of Poker No-Limit Texas Hold'em World Championship Event, the $10,000 buy-in "Main Event," held in April, 2006 at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, finishing 873th of 8,773 entries.[82] He currently works as a lawyer defending criminals and suing police officers.[citation needed]
Helen Shiller had 141 unpaid parking tickets by 1983, according to a list of scofflaws released by the City.[83]
Helen Shiller and her long-time chief of staff Maggie Morningstone were interviewed in Hope Dies Last, a collection of oral histories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Uptown resident Studs Terkel.[6]
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