Helen Shiller, author of the book “Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win”, who will be appearing at the Wisconsin Book Festival, joins the Thursday edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz to talk about her decades of struggle to bring progressive politics to Chicago, following her activism on the UW-Madison campus in the late 1960’s.

Helen was a Chicago alder for twenty-five years and helped implement the progressive programs proposed by the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington despite organized opposition from a bloc of entrenched alders used to the politics of patronage.  Helen will be at the Madison Public Central Library on Friday, October 20, at 4:30 pm.

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