Galewood, September 2013, continued . . .

Questions and complaints continued — about illegal immigrants using scarce resources while not paying taxes, declining property values in their racially threatened neighborhood, lack of a public library “we can take our kids to,” a North Avenue pawn shop.

“Residents need a voice,” a woman said. “We are stuck. You have to listen.”

The airing of North Avenue problems prompted a call for comment from the alderman, Deborah Graham, who had sat quietly through it all in the audience.

Graham had been a state representative for Oak Park and Austin from 2002, when she defeated an Oak Park woman in a challenge election following her loss to by a coin toss — not kidding — to break a tie some months earlier.

After the second election, more than a hundred uncounted ballots were found in an Austin polling place, perhaps held in reserve…