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Before Mayor Pete, there was Joan Jett Blakk for president! Look for her story at Steppenwolf by Chris Jones

In 1991, Joan Jett Blakk ran against Richard M. Daley for Mayor of Chicago. By the following year, the radical drag persona of the courtly, mild-mannered performer Terence Smith was running for President of the United States. Some 27 years later, Smith could be found the other week in the Front...

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 6:00am on May 22, 2019

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