The Washington Post, February 25th, 1987
Mayor Harold Washington won the rematch with former mayor Jane M. Byrne tonight, taking the Democratic mayoral nomination on a late surge of support from black voters in the city's South Side. With more than 95 percent of the precincts reported, Washington had 547,000 to Byrne's 483,000, a 53-to-47 percent ratio. The three major television networks-ABC, CBS and NBC-declared Washington the winner within minutes of the polls closing at 7 tonight. They made their projections based on computerized vote-profile models, interviews with voters leaving the polls and incomplete unofficial returns. But ...
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