Prendergast
- Carter Harrison, champion of the working class and labor unions, loses his fifth term in the 1891 mayoral election.
- Joseph Prendergast, Irish immigrant and avid mayor Harrison supporter, writes hundreds of postcards to important Chicago city figures.
- He's a bit of a loony and thinks people are actually going to listen to his crazed rants.
- One such recipient of Predergast's postcards is Alfred S. Trude, the city's best criminal defense attorneys.
- For whatever reason, Trude keeps the postcard.