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Comiskey Park, Robin F. Bachin(
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) ...the team to suburban Addison , the owners and Mayor Harold Washington successfully lobbied the state...
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Palos Heights, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...in the community. Palos Heights is governed by a mayor and eight aldermen. The city's first train...
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Building a Bridge, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Another Bridge Improvement, Dearborn St. Bascule Bridge, City of Chicago, Richard J. Daley, Mayor. &...
...rdquo; See also: Mayors ; Infrastructure Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic...
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Private and Public Beaches, Page 1, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...city's poor. As chair, Dr. Stevenson appealed to the Mayor to assist in opening the beaches of Lake...
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Streeterville, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...lakefront property. In 1857 they persuaded Mayor “Long John” Wentworth to clear out the trespassers....
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Black Panther Party, Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly(
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) ...Panthers' programs presented a political threat to Mayor Richard J. Daley, who perceived the party's...
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Fight for 40th Street, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...an early Cicero Township landowner. In 1933, Mayor Edward Kelly sought to consolidate his ties to...
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Romanians, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...groups together in a Chicago-wide alliance. Mayor Richard J. Daley declared May 10, 1975, Romanian...
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Brighton Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...Avenue Plank Road (now Western Avenue). In 1855 Mayor Long John Wentworth opened the Brighton Race...
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Lake Bluff, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...paramount to development. Walter S. Gurnee , mayor of Chicago (1851–52) and speculator, foresaw this...
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Public Health, Jennifer Koslow(
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) ...to 1930, when he fell out of political favor with Mayor William Hale Thompson. Bundesen's programs...
...A nine-member policy-making body, appointed by the mayor, constituted a new Board of Health. A new...
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Railroad Strike of 1877, Karen Sawislak(
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) ...a mass mobilization of “special” police by Mayor Heath, the mass arrest of protesters and socialist...
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Chicago Relief and Aid Society, Karen Sawislak(
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) ...small scale until the Great Fire of 1871 , when Mayor R. B. Mason, at the request of a delegation of...
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Rent Control, Wendy Plotkin(
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) ...condominium conversion, and abandonment led Mayor Richard J. Daley, in 1976, to appoint a committee...
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Tax Strikes, David T. Beito(
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) ...Court, and later the U.S. Supreme Court. Mayor Anton Cermak and other politicians desperately tried...
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Water Polo, Robert Pruter(
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) ...won its last national title in 1960, and the Mayor Daley Youth Foundation team was the last Chicago...
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Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, James Ralph(
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) ...Raby led CCCO marches on city hall to force Mayor Richard J. Daley to remove Willis and to endorse...
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Flags and Symbols, Christopher Thale(
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) ...for vehicles. William B. Ogden, Chicago's first mayor, helped design Chicago's multifaceted seal in...
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Preston H. Smith II(
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) ...campaign to extract concrete concessions from Mayor Richard J. Daley, led a march in Cicero in 1966....
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"Downstate", James R. Thompson(
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) ...is taken very seriously. Chicagoans—with a mayor elected for life—make do with the Bulls , Bears ,...
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