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Machine Politics, Roger Biles(
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) ...from establishing hegemony. Several Chicago mayors , most notably Carter H. Harrison (Democrat,...
...Coughlin, alderman, First Ward; Anton J. Cermak, mayor; Herman Bundesen, health commissioner; J....
...Party Managing Committee. Cermak's election as mayor in 1931 was attributable in large part to his...
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Gun Control, Eli Rubin(
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) ...of the Chicago freeze was felt far away, as Mayor Diane Feinstein of San Francisco began her own...
...restricting handguns in 1989. In 1992, led by Mayor Richard M. Daley, the Chicago City Council voted...
...some of the nation's toughest gun control laws. Mayor Richard J. Daley was outspoken in his stand...
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Kelly-Nash Machine, Paul Green(
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) ...and welfare programs in the city. Kelly's terms as mayor were bathed in controversy. Gambling and...
...1933 to 1947. Following the fatal shooting of Mayor Anton Cermak in February 1933, longtime Cermak...
...engineer of the Sanitary District, to complete the mayor's term. Consolidating and refining Cermak's...
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Lager Beer Riot, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...a thin base of popular support. Once elected, Mayor Levi Boone and the new council majority hiked...
...year to three months. Expecting resistance, Mayor Boone “reformed” the city's police force: tripling...
...A huge crowd assembled to support the defendants. Mayor Boone ordered police to clear the courthouse...
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O'Hare Airport, David Brodherson(
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) ...O'Hare constituted a city within a city. i3286 Mayor Richard J. Daley and President John F. Kennedy...
...scale in 1955. After Burke's death in 1956, Mayor Richard J. Daley selected C. F. Murphy Associates...
...fingers” where passengers enplane and deplane. Mayor Daley and President John F. Kennedy dedicated...
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Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum(
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) ...and specific personalities—especially powerful mayors —but also by the same broad influences found...
...powers, including a municipal government with a mayor and common council, a municipal court, and...
...would simply add to the clout already wielded by Mayor Richard J. Daley. Additionally, as geographer...
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Republican Party, Paul Green and Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...success in Chicago politics . Many of the city's mayors during that period came from the GOP, and...
...suburbs. Chicago elected its first Republican mayor—the veteran politician and newspaperman John...
...machines. John B. Rice, the city's Republican mayor during the late 1860s, was attacked by reform...
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Darien, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...votes, out of 2,000 cast. Sam Kelly, the first mayor of the new city, suggested the name “Darien,”...
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Bicycling, Allyson Hobbs(
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) ...with the tradition begun by Carter H. Harrison II, Mayor Richard J. Daley played a critical role in...
...for Daley's bicycling programs. During the 1990s, Mayor Richard M. Daley, an avid cyclist, furthered...
...friendly city. In 1991, Daley created the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Council to encourage bicycling....
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Street Musicians, Don McLeese(
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) ...most friendly to street musicians was that of Mayor Harold Washington, who authorized a licensing...
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Gary, IN, Raymond A. Mohl(
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) ...permitting white attorney Scott King to win the mayor's office. Blacks continued to control the city...
...were related. A succession of white ethnic mayors in the 1950s and 1960s ended in 1967 with the...
...Hatcher, one of the nation's first big-city black mayors. White flight to nearby suburbs had already...
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School Districts, Kenneth K. Wong(
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) ...for children over five years old. In 1872 the mayor was given the power to appoint the board with...
...a unique governance structure, where the mayor directly appoints the five-member school board. Local...
...SFA), jointly appointed by the governor and the mayor, to oversee and approve the district's budget....
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Chicago Public Library, Cathleen D. Cahill(
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) ...signaled a renewed emphasis on public service. Mayor Richard M. Daley made branch libraries a...
...circulation dropped. Following strong support from Mayor Harold Washington, the new central library...
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Schools and Education, John L. Rury(
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) ...of Education, with members appointed by the mayor, to oversee all aspects of public education in the...
...the curriculum to school finance. Republican mayor William Hale Thompson attacked Superintendent...
...sanctions. This, coupled with the election of Mayor Martin Kennelly and passage of state legislation...
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Taxation and Finance, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...Chicago was not as sound financially as the late mayor had boasted. Yet the various governments of...
...than the federal program. A careful manager of funds, Mayor Richard J. Daley was able to gloat about...
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Police, Christopher Thale(
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) ...forced confessions were also employed. Initially, the mayor and city council appointed officers. In...
...commissioners, state appointed, later elected; the mayor and council regained control in 1875. The...
...vice districts before World War I, but under Mayor William Hale Thompson (1915–1923, 1927–1931),...
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Ukrainian Village, Wallace Best(
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) ...Cathedral, designed by Louis Sullivan. Although Mayor Jane Byrne designated Ukrainian Village an...
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Copperheads, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...Copperheads were southern migrants to the city like former mayors Buckner Morris and Levi Boone....
...Most Democrats, however, including the wartime mayor Francis C. Sherman, sustained the difficult...
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Schiller Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...called the White House. He served as honorary mayor of the unincorporated town, which was known as...
...became the first woman village president or mayor in Illinois. Her avowed strategy was to employ...
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Great Society, Nicholas Lemann(
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) ...23, 1964, in Chicago, at a fund-raising dinner for Mayor Richard J. Daley. The Chicago setting was...
...Poverty was never popular with the public, and Mayor Daley especially disliked it. The main reason...
...the ancient political custom of allowing mayors, governors, and members of Congress to determine how...
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