(Chicago Sun Times) — It’s a story as old as time: adultery, anguish and atonement. Last Tuesday, when news broke of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s extramarital relationship with a blond nightclub hostess — kryptonite in the world of the African-American woman — his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, inserted a little laughter into the public disclosure.
The venue she chose to publicly thwack her errant husband was her 47th birthday party/fund-raiser tossed by her 7th Ward staff at the Park 52 restaurant in Hyde Park.