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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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New Deal, Roger Biles(
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) ...black voters (who also found much to admire in Mayor Kelly's record) switched allegiances from the...
...in Chicago. Edward J. Kelly, who served as mayor from 1933 to 1947, immediately established himself...
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Council on Fine Arts, Steve Scott(
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) ...and understanding of the arts, the 15-member, mayor-appointed Chicago Council on Fine Arts (CCFA)...
...Office of Fine Arts) was combined with the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Office of Film...
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World War I, Sean J. LaBat(
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) ...also insinuated itself into Chicago politics . Mayor William Thompson plied German and Irish voters...
...and Terms of Peace to meet in the city. The mayor drew further attention by spurning the visiting...
...Senate. The same election also witnessed future mayor Anton Cermak’s defeat in the race for Cook...
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Bridgeport, Dominic A. Pacyga(
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) ...Democratic machine came to power in 1931 under Mayor Anton Cermak, Bridgeport politicians provided...
...Bridgeport neighborhood of Hamburg, took office. As mayor and chairman of the Cook County Democratic...
...his son, Richard M. Daley, became the fifth mayor of Chicago born in Bridgeport. Bridgeport once...
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Braidwood, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...Scottish , and Czech miners, including future mayor Anton Cermak were among those who found work in...
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Service Employees International Union (SEIU), D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...a nephew of Quesse and a close confidant of Mayor Richard J. Daley. McFetridge modernized the...
...a potent political force. Beginning in 1917, Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson arbitrated several contract...
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Annie McClure Hitchcock, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...the lager beer riot of 1855. During those days Mayor Boone stationed armed guards around City Hall,...
...She worked with Katharine Medill, wife of the mayor, to distribute clothing and bedding to those...
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Great Depression, Tracey Deutsch(
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) ...crashed in October 1929, Chicago had a Republican mayor, a virtually insolvent municipal government,...
...Democrat Anton Cermak unseated the Republican mayor by creating a broad coalition of Chicago's white...
...ethnic groups in 1931. Edward Kelly, who became mayor after Cermak's 1933 assassination, expanded...
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Clearing, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...was Long John Wentworth, a U.S. Senator and mayor of Chicago. Wentworth built a house in 1868 at the...
...an airport on the Southwest Side. In 1927, Mayor William Hale Thompson dedicated the Chicago...
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Street Naming, Michael Paul Wakeford(
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) ...developers. English towns and Chicago's former mayors and aldermen have provided the next most...
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