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1 Mayors, Melvin G. Holli( Authored Entry )
...Mayors...
...for his leadership in school reform, with Chicago's model emulated by several other big city mayors....
...Chicago's mayors from incorporation in 1837 through the Great Fire of 1871 were drawn from the upper...
2 Mayor's Commission on Human Relations, Charles E. Clifton( Authored Entry )
...Mayor's Commission on Human Relations...
...The Mayor's Commission on Human Relations (1945...
...and 1946) grew out of the Mayor's Committee on Race Relations, appointed by Mayor Edward J. Kelly in...
3 Inauguration of Mayor Richard J. Daley, ( Historical Source )
...Inauguration of Mayor Richard J. Daley...
...Politics Teddy Roosevelt in Car Daley Sworn in as Mayor Daley at Robert Taylor Homes Florence Scala...
...Fly Kukla Fran and Ollie Studs' Place         A Mayor is Inaugurated Real Media HQ Real Media LQ...
4 "We Support Mayor Daley," 1968, ( Historical Source )
...We Support Mayor Daley," 1968...
...approved of the Chicago policemen's use of force and Mayor Daley's strong stand against disorder....
...Ironically, Mayor Daley, a political and economic liberal who believed that government had an...
Date Created: 1968, Date Depicted: 1968
5 Dinner with Mayor Edward J. Kelly, 1938, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...Dinner with Mayor Edward J. Kelly, 1938...
...Seated with Mayor Edward J. Kelly (middle) at a black-tie event on December 12, 1938 are Illinois...
Date Created: , Date Depicted:
6 U. S. Senator Paul Douglas, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Mayor George Chacharis, Floyd Swenk, and others in a Jeep at the Indiana Dunes, 1961, Photographer: The Hammond Times( Historical Source )
...U. S. Senator Paul Douglas, Mayor Richard J....
...Daley, Mayor George Chacharis, Floyd Swenk, and others in a Jeep at the Indiana Dunes, 1961...
...in the front passenger seat, is accompanied by Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago (seated behind...
Date Created: 1961, Date Depicted: 1961
7 Mayor William Hale Thompson Voting, 1916, Photographer: Chicago Daily News( Historical Source )
...Mayor William Hale Thompson Voting, 1916...
...his Republican primary challenge to incumbent mayor William Hale Thompson (pictured here voting in...
Date Created: 1916, Date Depicted: 1916
8 Mayor William Hale Thompson at Weeghman Park, 1915, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...Mayor William Hale Thompson at Weeghman Park, 1915...
...Mayor William Hale Thompson throwing first ball for the Whales, a Chicago Federal League baseball...
Date Created: 1915, Date Depicted: 1915
9 Mayor Martin Kennelly at Municipal (Midway) Airport, 1947, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...Mayor Martin Kennelly at Municipal (Midway) Airport, 1947...
...officials) were greeted by a delegation led by Mayor Martin Kennelly. According to Pan American...
Date Created: 1947, Date Depicted: 1947
10 Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007, ( Table )
...Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007...
...P. Holden (Dem. ) 1873 Lester Legrant Bond (Acting mayor following Medill's resignation) (Oct. 27,...
...Thompson (Rep. ) 1933 Frank J. Corr (Acting mayor pending election) (Jan. 12, 1877– June 3, 1934)...
11 Government, City of Chicago, Loomis Mayfield( Authored Entry )
...won a majority in special council elections in 1986. Mayor Richard M. Daley (1989–) has continued a...
...of power favoring the city council over the mayor ; a large council elected by wards , with city...
...municipal charter established a popularly elected mayor and Common Council, which in 1875 became the...
12 Political Culture, Robin Einhorn( Authored Entry )
...eventually brought Richard M. Daley into the mayor's office in 1989, the beginning of a new era in...
...segregated (which they were) was an old buddy of Mayor Richard J. Daley, placed on the federal bench...
...because President John F. Kennedy probably owed the mayor his election. The idea that judicial...
13 Politics, Maureen A. Flanagan( Authored Entry )
...suffrage by Illinois law in 1913. In 1915, Mayor William Hale Thompson (1915–1923, 1927–1931)...
...Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 No mayor has ever been convicted for illegal activities, but...
...the slating of nominees for circuit court judges. Mayor Ed Kelly (1933–1947) had been indicted for...
14 Council Wars, Vernon Jarrett( Authored Entry )
...with the 25 left from the Vrdolyak 29. With the mayor's tie-breaking vote activated, the council, on...
...Within hours after Mayor Harold Washington had concluded his swearing-in speech in April 1983, one...
...first term of Chicago's first African American mayor, pitted Mayor Washington against the “Vrdolyak...
15 Democratic Party, Arnold R. Hirsch( Authored Entry )
...whether the foundation was the party or the mayor's shrewd and effective personal leadership. i3725...
...The banner honoring Chicago's Democratic mayor, Anton Cermak, was left over from his mayoral...
...II (1897–1905, 1911–1915), were each elected mayor five times as Democrats, winning 10 of 17...
16 Daley's Chicago, Roger Biles( Authored Entry )
...held in check, resulting in the election of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983....
...Democratic Party. In 1955 Daley ousted incumbent mayor Martin Kennelly in a bitterly contested...
...secured reelection five times, the last in 1975. Mayor Daley enjoyed great success, particularly in...
17 Bronzeville, Dempsey J. Travis( Authored Entry )
...A. Dorsey, a mentor of Mahalia Jackson, was a candidate for the Mayor of Bronzeville, and Cora...
...Carroll, a businesswoman, was the Mayor of Bronzeville in the 1960s....
...1930 his newspaper sponsored an unsuccessful Mayor of Bronzeville contest. In 1932 Gentry left the...
18 Assassination of Carter Harrison, Edward M. Burke( Authored Entry )
...Harrison three times at point-blank range. The mayor's wounds were fatal. Chicago was plunged into...
...Known as “the common man's mayor ,” Carter Harrison I (1879–1887, 1893) enjoyed riding through the...
...the close of the World's Columbian Exhibition . Mayor Harrison's commitment to the world's fair had...
19 Good Government Movements, Jon C. Teaford( Authored Entry )
...by good government movements. From 1947 to 1955 Mayor Martin Kennelly served as an ineffectual good...
...Charles Merriam's son Robert ran unsuccessfully for mayor as a reform alternative to the Cook County...
...an inspiring but unsuccessful race for the mayor 's office. By the early 1920s, however, Republican...
20 Goose Island, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...luxury residential lofts. In 1990, however, Mayor Richard M. Daley declared Goose Island the city's...

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