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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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Elmwood Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier(
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) ...of the first farm families, served as the first mayor. Elmwood Park experienced its greatest boom in...
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Film Censorship, Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.(
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) ...its removal from Chicago theaters. Newly elected mayor William Hale Thompson rewarded his African...
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Fox River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Bohemian restaurant and bar. Politicians such as Mayor Anton Cermak came from Chicago just to eat at...
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Frankfort, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...year, Sherman W. Bowen, a current alderman and future mayor of Joliet who owned 80 acres of land in...
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Gurnee, IL, Mark Howard Long(
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) ...named for railroad land agent and former Chicago Mayor Walter S. Gurnee, who purchased the right-of-...
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Millennium Park, Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
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) ...on the east, and Monroe Street on the south. Mayor Richard M. Daley conceived of Millennium Park as...
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Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Karen Mary Davalos(
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) ...opportunities for Latino enfranchisement under Mayor Harold Washington, Tortolero and Valdez pursued...
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Nightclubs, Richard A. Wang(
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) ...as the Levee, was shut down in 1914 during Mayor Harrison's reform administration, and nightlife...
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Patronage, David Orr(
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) ...to city governments during Richard J. Daley's tenure as mayor provided an especially rich source of...
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Playground Movement, Julia Sniderman Bachrach(
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) ...breathing spaces,” and in the following year the mayor created the Special Park Commission (SPC) to...
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