 In Harold Washington 's successful first campaign for Mayor of Chicago in the 1983 municipal elections , Shiller was employed as the campaign organizer for the 46th Ward . Shiller owned and operated a print shop , Justice Graphics , that printed the campaign literature for Washington 's first mayoral campaign . Justice Graphics published the All @-@ Chicago City News , a 40 @,@ 000 circulation pro @-@ Washington , left @-@ wing , bilingual , biweekly newspaper edited by Shiller and Walter " Slim " Coleman . Coleman formed a plan to register 100 @,@ 000 new voters for Washington by canvassing public aid offices and became a close advisor to candidate and , later , Mayor Harold Washington . Just before the 1983 elections , Alderman Axelrod resigned from City Council to take a job in the Cook County Sheriff 's office . Community activist Charlotte Newfeld and Jerome Orbach ran for alderman and went to a run @-@ off , which Orbach won by 66 votes . Orbach allied with Edward Vrdolyak and the Vrdolyak 29 during Council Wars . 
