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The Mayors

Author : Paul M. Green
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809331993
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Mayors written by Paul M. Green and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally released in 1987, The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition gathered some of the finest minds in political thought to provide shrewd analysis of Chicago’s mayors and their administrations. Twenty-five years later, this fourth edition continues to illuminate the careers of some of Chicago’s most respected, forceful, and even notorious mayors, leaders whose lives were often as vibrant and eclectic as the city they served. In addition to chapters on the individual mayors—including a new chapter on Rahm Emanuel, enhanced by an expert explanation of the current state of the city’s budget by Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation—this new edition offers an insightful overview of the Chicago mayoral tradition throughout the city’s history; rankings of the mayors evaluated on their leadership and political qualities; an appendix of Chicago’s mayors and their years of service; and additional updated materials. Chicago’s mayoral history is one of corruption and reform, scandal and ambition. This well-researched volume, more relevant than ever twenty-five years after its first edition, presents an intriguing and informative glimpse into the fascinating lives and legacies of Chicago’s most influential leaders.

Chicago's Mayors

Author : Elaine C. Shigley
Publisher : Francis M. Shigley, III
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Mayors written by Elaine C. Shigley and published by Francis M. Shigley, III. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing from a small, US military outpost on the banks of the Chicago River in 1804, Chicago emerged to become the 3rd largest city in the United States with a population of over 2.7 million people. Chicago’s Mayors tells the stories of the 48 people that lead the “The Windy City” to become the thriving, diverse metropolis it is today. Chicago’s Mayors also recounts how mayors dealt with major catastrophes such as the Great Chicago Fire when the city was almost completely destroyed to organized crime that arose from Prohibition (the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution). Chicago’s Mayors is an innovative compilation of “mini-biographies” of the leaders of “The City of Broad Shoulders.” History buffs will find links to additional reference material and a detailed bibliography making Chicago’s Mayors the perfect jumping off point for additional research and study into Chicago History. Teachers will enjoy Chicago’s Mayors because it complements lesson plans on Chicago history on a variety of topics including the Great Chicago Fire, organized crime, the Civil War, and Prohibition. Students at all levels will enjoy Chicago’s Mayors because it’s both concise and comprehensive making it a useful resource for book reports and term papers.

Chicago’s Modern Mayors

Author : Dick Simpson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252055268
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Chicago’s Modern Mayors written by Dick Simpson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political profiles of five mayors and their lasting impact on the city Chicago’s transformation into a global city began at City Hall. Dick Simpson and Betty O’Shaughnessy edit in-depth analyses of the five mayors that guided the city through this transition beginning with Harold Washington’s 1983 election: Washington, Eugene Sawyer, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emmanuel, and Lori Lightfoot. Though the respected political science, sociologist, and journalist contributors approach their subjects from distinct perspectives, each essay addresses three essential issues: how and why each mayor won the office; whether the City Council of their time acted as a rubber stamp or independent body; and the ways the unique qualities of each mayor’s administration and accomplishments influenced their legacy. Filled with expert analysis and valuable insights, Chicago’s Modern Mayors illuminates a time of transition and change and considers the politicians who--for better and worse--shaped the Chicago of today.

The Mayors

Author : Paul Michael Green
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809388455
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Mayors written by Paul Michael Green and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago

Author : Bradley W. Rasch
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475963041
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago written by Bradley W. Rasch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sharach Bond, who served as the first governor of Illinois beginning in 1818, to William Ogden, Chicago's first mayor, many powerful men and women have played vital roles in the political life and climate of both Chicago and Illinois. The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago provides biographies for the state's most important power brokers. In this study, author Bradley W. Rasch explores the history of the state, its politics, and its power brokers and details little-known facts about some of the important people: - Edward Coles, who served as governor from 1822 to 1826, was an abolitionist long before it was fashionable. - Gov. Joseph Duncan's (1834-1838) major accomplishment was moving the state capital to Springfield. - William Ogden is called Chicago's founder and served as the first mayor after its incorporation, which he helped facilitate. - Mayor Augustus Garrett served as mayor twice but is best known for having his second election invalidated due to fraud. Filled with an interesting array of facts and trivia, The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago shows how many of the people who served in these positions have gone on to receive national and international acclaim and influence.

Mayor 1%

Author : Kari Lydersen
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608462854
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Mayor 1% written by Kari Lydersen and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a city long dominated by a notorious Democratic Machine become a national battleground in the right-wing war against the public sector? In Mayor 1%, veteran journalist Kari Lydersen takes a close look at Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and his true agenda. With deep Wall Street ties from his investment banking years and a combative political style honed in Congress and the Clinton and Obama administrations, Emanuel is among a rising class of rock-star mayors promising to remake American cities. But his private-sector approach has sidelined and alienated many who feel they are not part of Emanuel’s vision for a new Chicago—and it has inspired a powerful group of activists and community members to unite in defense of their beloved city. Kari Lydersen is a Chicago-based journalist, author and journalism instructor who has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Progressive, In These Times, and other publications. She is the author of four books, including The Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover and What it Says About the Economic Crisis. She specializes in coverage of labor, energy and the environment. She has taught at Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University and also works with youth from low-income communities through the program We the People Media. karilydersen dot com.

The Nation City

Author : Rahm Emanuel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566627
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Nation City written by Rahm Emanuel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a clear vision, for both progressives and centrists, of how to get things done in America today--a bracing, optimistic vision of America's future from one of our most experienced and original political minds. In The Nation City, Rahm Emanuel, former two-term mayor of Chicago and White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, offers a firsthand account of how cities, rather than the federal government, stand at the center of innovation and effective governance. Drawing on his own experiences in Chicago, and on his relationships with other mayors around America, Emanuel provides dozens of examples to show how cities are improving education, infrastructure, job conditions, and environmental policy at a local level. Emanuel argues that cities are the most ancient political institutions, dating back thousands of years and have reemerged as the nation-states of our time. He makes clear how mayors are accountable to their voters to a greater degree than any other elected officials and illuminates how progressives and centrists alike can best accomplish their goals by focusing their energies on local politics. The Nation City maps out a new, energizing, and hopeful way forward.

Political History of Chicago

Author : M. L. Ahern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Political History of Chicago written by M. L. Ahern and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The City Is Up for Grabs

Author : Gregory Royal Pratt
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641609982
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The City Is Up for Grabs written by Gregory Royal Pratt and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gregory Pratt had a rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot's uneasy tenure on the fifth floor at City Hall. What he delivers on these pages takes us backstage to give us a powerful, incisive portrait of the woman, the details of her mayoralty, and the many players who shared the stage." —Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune reporter and author of A Chicago Tavern Chicago is a world-class city, but it is also a city in crisis. Crime is up, schools have repeatedly shut down due to conflict between City Hall and the powerful teachers' union, and COVID-19 only deepened the entrenched poverty, institutional racism, and endless tug of war between the city's haves and have nots. For four years, the person at the center of this storm was Lori Lightfoot. A groundbreaking figure—the first Black, gay woman to be elected mayor of a major city and only the second female mayor of Chicago—she knew the city was at a critical turning point when she took office in 2019. But the once-in-a-lifetime challenges she ended up facing were beyond anything she or anyone else saw coming. Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Royal Pratt offers the first comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the tumultuous single term of Mayor Lightfoot and the chaos that roiled the city and City Hall as she fought to live up to her promises to change the city's culture of corruption and villainy, reform its long-troubled police department, and make Chicago the safest big city in America. Some of Chicago's problems can be explained by forces greater than the mayor: national polarization, long-standing cultural and racial tensions, our plague years. But some are the result of Lightfoot's poor leadership at City Hall, a story that hasn't been told in full—until now.

Chicago's Modern Mayors

Author : Dick Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252045608
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Modern Mayors written by Dick Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political profiles of five mayors and their lasting impact on the city Chicago's transformation into a global city began at City Hall. Dick Simpson and Betty O'Shaughnessy edit in-depth analyses of the five mayors that guided the city through this transition beginning with Harold Washington's 1983 election: Washington, Eugene Sawyer, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emmanuel, and Lori Lightfoot. Though the respected political science, sociologist, and journalist contributors approach their subjects from distinct perspectives, each essay addresses three essential issues: how and why each mayor won the office; whether the City Council of their time acted as a rubber stamp or independent body; and the ways the unique qualities of each mayor's administration and accomplishments influenced their legacy. Filled with expert analysis and valuable insights, Chicago's Modern Mayors illuminates a time of transition and change and considers the politicians who--for better and worse--shaped the Chicago of today.

Chicago's Mayors

Author : Municipal Reference Library (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Mayors written by Municipal Reference Library (Chicago, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1935* with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mayor Harold Washington

Author : Roger Biles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050525
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Mayor Harold Washington written by Roger Biles and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral triumph, fueled by overwhelming black support, represented victory over the Chicago Machine and business as usual. Yet the racially charged campaign heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that obstructed his efforts to change city government. Roger Biles's sweeping biography provides a definitive account of Washington and his journey from the state legislature to the mayoralty. Once in City Hall, Washington confronted the back room deals, aldermanic thuggery, open corruption, and palm greasing that fueled the city's autocratic political regime. His alternative: a vision of fairness, transparency, neighborhood empowerment, and balanced economic growth at one with his emergence as a dynamic champion for African American uplift and a crusader for progressive causes. Biles charts the countless infamies of the Council Wars era and Washington's own growth through his winning of a second term—a promise of lasting reform left unfulfilled when the mayor died in 1987. Original and authoritative, Mayor Harold Washington redefines a pivotal era in Chicago's modern history.

A View from Chicago's City Hall

Author : Melvin G. Holli
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738563732
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book A View from Chicago's City Hall written by Melvin G. Holli and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A View from City Hall: Mid-Century to Millennium offers readers a richly detailed, visual road map of Chicago as viewed from the mayor's office in City Hall. Within these pages are emblematic images of Chicago evolving from blue-ribbon Mayor Martin Kennelly's 1947-1955 administration through his successors, including the city's first and second black mayors, the city's first female mayor, the city's first non-Irish mayor since 1933, and finally, the Daley "double," Richard J. and Richard M. Witness the excitement as City Hall rolls out the welcome wagon for traveling kings and queens, dignitaries, and counts, as well as figures of great historic import, including Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bishop Tutu, and Frank Sinatra. View rare scenes of the "builder" mayor tradition and the construction of such architectural triumphs as the Sears Tower, which was then the world's-tallest building. With over 200 photographs accompanied by informative captions, this volume highlights a variety of Chicago's ethnic festivals, parades, and political campaigns, skillfully bringing each scene to life.

Daley: A Retrospective

Author : Chicago Tribune Staff
Publisher : Agate Digital
ISBN 13 : 1572844337
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Daley: A Retrospective written by Chicago Tribune Staff and published by Agate Digital. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the second half of the twentieth century through today, no family has defined Chicago in the public's eye more than the Daleys. Between Richard J. Daley and his son, Richard M. Daley, a member of this prominent Bridgeport family served as the city's mayor for 43 out of a total 57 years from 1955–2011. When Richard M. Daley, also known as "Richie", made a surprise announcement in 2011 that he would not seek re-election, he had surpassed his father's record tenure of 21 years in office. Daley: A Retrospective explores the fascinating, storied career of Richard M. Daley: the longest-serving, and arguably, most important mayor in the city's own long, storied history. From Richie's childhood in his father's shadow to his infamous teenaged run-in with the law, this book begins with the earliest years in the life of Richard J. Daley's eldest son. It follows the rise of Daley's political career as a state senator and as the state's attorney through his 1989 election as mayor. The bulk of Daley: A Retrospective focuses on Daley's lengthy, imperial reign over Chicago politics, in which he developed his own unique and powerful personality. Transitioning from a perceived simulacrum of his father into one of the most dominant, idiosyncratic, and quotable individuals in American politics, Daley made his name by making bold moves, waging hard-fought battles, and forging commanding, if not celebrated, consensus between the multitudes of citywide officials and organizations. Comprised of 60 years of Chicago Tribune reporting, this story is unique to Chicago and told by none better than the reporters, editors, and notable commentators who covered Daley's entire career. Touching on race relations, education, gang violence, crime, environmentalism, gay marriage, local sports, and the murky world of Chicago politics, Daley: A Retrospective is a captivating read. It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive exploration of Mayor Richard M. Daley's legacy, and it will serve as a significant resource as Daley continues to be reexamined and reevaluated for years to come.

My Chicago

Author : Jane Byrne
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810120879
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book My Chicago written by Jane Byrne and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-fisted memoir of Chicago's first woman mayor.

Chicago Divided

Author : Paul Kleppner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875805320
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Divided written by Paul Kleppner and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the background of the election in 1983 in which Harold Washington was elected Chicago's first black mayor.

The Daley Legacy

Author : Chicago sun-times
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597253123
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book The Daley Legacy written by Chicago sun-times and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: