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New Deal, Roger Biles(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...developers. English towns and Chicago's former mayors and aldermen have provided the next most...
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Calumet City, IL, Dominic Candeloro(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1970, and 39,697 in 1980. Since the 1920s various mayors and citizen groups battled to shut down...
...State Street bars with varying success, until Mayor Jerry Genova's efforts in the 1990s seemed to...
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Aldermanic Privilege, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...were also committeemen acted as “little mayors” of their wards. Reformers objected that aldermanic...
...in the mid-twentieth century. In 1955, however, Mayor Richard J. Daley centralized zoning variation...
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City Club of Chicago, Susan Marie Wirka(
Authored Entry
) ...began to decline, however, with the advent of Mayor Richard J. Daley's administration, as the...
...controlled the city's reform environment. When Mayor Daley died in 1976, the club had as few as 60...
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Coffeehouses, Eli Rubin(
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) ...newspapermen, and politicians, including future mayor Anton Cermak. Amato's Café at 914 S. Halsted...
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Finding a Playground, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Political Culture ; Public Works, Federal Funding for U. S. Senator Paul Douglas, Mayor Richard J....
...Daley, and Mayor George Chacharis at the Indiana Dunes, 1961 Photographer: The Hammond Times Source:...
...in the front passenger seat, is accompanied by Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago (seated behind...
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Royko: What Clout Is, (
Authored Entry
) ...hour week before. ” “My clout sent a letter to the mayor recommending me for a judgeship. Maybe I'll...
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Privatization, Robin A. Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...unfunded intergovernmental mandates. Under Mayor Richard M. Daley, the city of Chicago privatized a...
...rights. Another criticism of privatization under Mayor Daley is that contracting with private firms...
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Baths, Public, Marilyn Thornton Williams(
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) ...from the press and the city government under Mayor Hempstead Washburne and city council finance...
...in 1894. It was named after assassinated mayor Carter H. Harrison and cost $20,649. Thereafter,...
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Steering, Pierre deVise(
Authored Entry
) ...After a summer of riots, arson, and marches, Mayor Richard J. Daley agreed to convene the Conference...
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Bridgeview, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...wheat, and potatoes. By the 1880s former Chicago mayor “Long John” Wentworth owned land in the area....
...a library. In the early 1980s longtime Bridgeview mayor John Oremus pitched the bold idea of a dozen...
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