- Courtesy Tom Palazzolo
- In Marquette Park II filmmakers Tom Palazzolo and Mark Rance caught a shirtless Rahm Emanuel demonstrating against a neo-Nazi march on the southwest side.
Like Jake Blues, Rahm Emanuel hates Illinois Nazis.
The neo-Nazi rally (and the coinciding counterdemonstration) is recorded in the 1978 documentary short Marquette Park II by Tom Palazzolo and Mark Rance. A fan of Palazzolo’s work, I was rewatching the film recently when I caught, in the throng of the anti-Nazi crowd, a brief glimpse of Rahm’s distinctive face crowned by a youthful tuft of dark hair. Beginning at around 23:56 in the video, Rahm is onscreen for all of five seconds, long enough for him to get a word in.
- Courtesy of Tom Palazzolo
- Rahm, still shirtless, in Marquette Park II
Rahm’s brief cameo in the documentary is interesting for at least two reasons:
