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Dawn Clark Netsch, August 27, 2009. | Brian Jackson~Chicago Sun-Times
Dawn Clark Netsch, December 7, 2011. | Al Podgorski~Sun-Times
Dawn Clark Netsch, June 29, 2008.| Brian Jackson/Sun-Times
Dawn Clark Netsch checks her reflection in a photographer's lens prior to a news conference in a Chicago grocery store on Tuesday, Oct. 18. 1994. | AP Photo
Dawn Clark Netsch reacts to a colleague, who jokingly asked if she had been influenced by a campaign contribution, during a debate on Oct. 19, 1983 ,in Springfield, Ill. | UPI photo
Dawn Clark Netsch, December 7, 2011. | Al Podgorski~Sun-Times
Dawn Clark Netsch shares a tender moment with one of their 4 dogs, Princess, December 29, 1997. | Sun-Times Library
Dawn Clark Netsch, June 29, 2008.| Brian Jackson/Sun-Times
Dawn Clark Netsch
There was nobody like Dawn Clark Netsch, the cigarette-smoking, pool-playing politician who helped break barriers that had kept women as stenographers and homemakers. Netsch, who died Tuesday at 86, having battled ALS, was the first woman to win the Democratic nomination for governor in Illinois, …
