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Article: Heart attack kills mayor // Fatally stricken in City Hall office
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 26, 1987
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Harold Washington, who became Chicago's first black mayor in
1983, died Wednesday after collapsing in his City Hall office.
He was declared dead at 1:36 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital, after prolonged efforts to resuscitate him.
Washington, 65, died as a result of a large clot in the major
artery to his heart, Cook County Medical Examiner Robert Stein said
Wednesday night after an autopsy.
Also contributing to the mayor's death, Stein said, was the fact
that he was seriously overweight at 284 pounds. Normal weight for a
man his size - 5 feet 10 inches - would be about 180 pounds, Stein
said.
The examination disclosed that the may
or's heart was three times normal size ...