Dirty Waters: Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss
By R.J. Nelson
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In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law—he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar stances in the sixties—but nothing could prepare him for the wretched bog that constituted the world of a Harbor Boss. Dirty Waters is the wry, no-holds-barred memoir of Nelson’s time controlling some of the city’s most beautiful spots while facing some of its ugliest traditions. Nelson takes us through Chicago's beloved “blue spaces” and deep into the city’s political morass, revealing the different moralities underlining three mayoral administrations and navigating the gritty mechanisms of the city’s political machine. Ultimately, Dirty Waters is a tale of morality, of what it takes to be a force for good in the world and what struggles come from trying to stay ethically afloat in a sea of corruption.
R.J. Nelson
R.J Nelson retired as CEO from the Hammond, Indiana Port Authority in 2005. He is a former Superintendent of Special Services and Director of Harbors for the Chicago Park District, Vice President of the historic Grebe Shipyard on the Chicago River, a University of Chicago administrator of Court Theater, and a chaplain at Cornell University. He has sailed across the Atlantic, up the Labrador Coast to the Artic, through the Caribbean islands and all the Great Lakes. He has degrees in English and Theology. Mr. Nelson lives in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago.
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