[1][3][4] During his second term in the Illinois Senate, Savickas was appointed Executive Secretary of the Chicago Park District.
[5] During the 86th General Assembly, Savickas abstained from voting to reelect Rock as President of the Illinois Senate.
To protest the loss of his position, he and his longtime ally Jeremiah E. Joyce joined the Republican caucus under Pate Philip.
The key Republican proposals during the stalemate, the repeal of the three fifths rule and the removal of Howard W. Carroll from the Appropriations Committee, were rejected.
[7] In the Republican controlled 1990 redistricting, Savickas, along with Jeremiah E. Joyce and Howard B. Brookins Sr., was drawn into the new 15th district.
In his majority African-American ward Byrne lost to Harold Washington with the vote going strictly down racial lines.
[14][5] In 1990, his son Michael ("Big Roach") Savickas was convicted in the killing of Thomas Vinnicky and sentenced to twenty eight years in prison.