The photo above, found in a list of ten showing what women have done with vehicles reminds me of my former Democratic State Representative Tom Hanahan.
Tom, the son of an officer of the Carpenters Union in Chicago, was sent to Johnsburg to run for the Illinois House after the 1964 bed sheet ballot.
In 1966, he beat local incumbent Billy Giblin, a farmer, I believe, from Union.
This picture reminds me of the tale about Hanahan’s being on a trip from DeKalb west.
He decided to take the new tollway.
The problem was that it was not completed and his car ran though wet cement.
While on the topic of Dekalb County and the tollway, let me add the story about DeKalb’s Dennis Collins’ farmland being the site of the interchange.
Collins was in the Illinois General Assembly from 1931 to 1973.
I remember his visiting my father’s office when I was running for County Treasurer in 1966.
Talking about him to a Senator who had served with him I was told after votes he would go up to some colleagues with a little book and remind them he had voted for their bills.
A quid pro quo seems to have been expected.
Re: The picture above.
The unintended consequences of “diversity”.
DIE-varsity.
DIE-versity
Ah, yess, Rom Hanrahan.
Doesn’t he hold the distinction of being the firswt (perhaps the only) McHenry County state legislator to have been indicted?
I seem to recall that he (and perhaps some other thieving pols) introduced a bill regarding titles for rental cars that was introduced for the sole purpose, allegedly, to get the rental companies to come up with “donations” to make sure the bill never went anywhere.
Pure Illinois sleeze at its finest.