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Article: Heart Attack Claims Ald. Lemuel Austin
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 12, 1994
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Ald. Lemuel Austin Jr., the most vocal - and often the lone -
black City Council supporter of Mayor Daley, died Saturday after
suffering a massive cardiac arrest Friday afternoon.
Ald. Austin, 48, who represented the 34th Ward, was stricken by
the heart attack at his home on the Far South Side. He was taken to
Roseland Community Hospital, where he died at 2:45 p.m. Saturday.
The alderman had suffered a heart attack in 1987 shortly before he
was first elected to the City Council.
Ald. Austin was born Nov. 25, 1945, and was a CTA bus driver,
precinct worker, aldermanic assistant, legislative aide and 34th Ward
Department of Streets and Sanitation superintendent before he was
elected ...