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| 1 | Mayors, Melvin G. Holli(
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...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...
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| 2 | Mayor's Commission on Human Relations, Charles E. Clifton(
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) ...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...
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| 3 | Government, City of Chicago, Loomis Mayfield(
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) ...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...
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| 4 | Political Culture, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...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...
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| 5 | Politics, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...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...
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| 6 | Council Wars, Vernon Jarrett(
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) ...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...
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| 7 | Democratic Party, Arnold R. Hirsch(
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) ...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...
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| 8 | Daley's Chicago, Roger Biles(
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) ...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...
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| 9 | Bronzeville, Dempsey J. Travis(
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) ...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...
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| 10 | Assassination of Carter Harrison, Edward M. Burke(
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) ...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...
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| 11 | Good Government Movements, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...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...
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| 12 | Goose Island, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...luxury residential lofts. In 1990, however, Mayor Richard M. Daley declared Goose Island the city's...
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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 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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| 15 | 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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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 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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| 18 | 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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| 19 | 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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| 20 | 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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