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Chicago: A More Intimate View of Urban Politics

by Charles Edward Merriam. 312 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Charles Edward Merriam

Publisher:

   The Macmillan Company

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1929
Subjects:   Chicago (Ill.)--Politics And Government, Chicago (Ill.)--Social Conditions
Table of contents
CONTENTS
1. HOW CHICAGO CAME TO BE 1
II. THE "BIG FIX" 24
III. CITY BUILDERS 70
IV. GOVERNMENTS: VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE 90
V. CROSS CURRENTS: RACE, RELIGION, SEX 134
VI. SOME CHICAGO LEADERS 178
VII. ACTUAL GOVERNMENT 222
VIII. THE PINEAPPLE PRIMARY AND OTHERS 268
IX. CHICAGO EMERGING 299
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Chicago: A More Intimate View of Urban Politics
Book by Charles Edward Merriam; Macmillan, 1929
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.)--Politics And Government, Chicago (Ill.)--Social Conditions
...without specific cause except an ill-defined fear of Chicago domination began to develop more...of social forces operating in Chicago and in other cities, and of these...a more intimate view of urban politics may well examine these situations...
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The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis
Book by John P. Koval, Larry Bennett, Michael I. J. Bennett, Fassil Demissie, Roberta Garner, Kiljoong Kim; Temple University Press, 2006
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.)--Social Conditions, City Planning--Illinois--Chicago, Immigrants--Illinois--Chicago
...pick up speed, Ill tell you whats...of cen- tral Chicago turned, in part...a hallmark of Chicagos civic identity, with the city government frequently offering...economy? First, Chicago is increasingly...both good and ill by the force of...
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Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City's Neighborhoods
Book by Marcia Farr; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004
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...case ofMcCoy v. City of Chicago (136 Ill .341 891), the Chicago...the state, the city of Chicago must comply with the...Board of Education (97 Ill. 375 1881 J). The case...of Leideck v. City of Chicago (248 Ill. App. 545 1928), the...
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Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago
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Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood
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Subjects: Chicago (Ill.)--Race Relations, Chicago (Ill.)--Social Conditions, Social Values--Illinois--Chicago, Sociology, Urban--Illinois--Chicago, Working Class--Illinois--Chicago
...Illinois Chicago. 4. Social values Illinois Chicago. 5. Chicago (Ill.) Race relations. 6...statement, Frank, a Chicago firefighter, told the...but if my faith in the government isnt borne out, Ill lead members of the...reality has insulated Chicagos Hispanics from the extreme...
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Postcards from Chicagoland
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Chicago
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The Chicago Acid Bath: The Impoverished Logic of Law and Economics
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...exorbitantly costly efforts in the final days of terminally ill patients. Although overdrawn, Epsteins point is both sound...an imagined public system, Epstein asserts casually that government "chews up huge portions of its revenues in administrative...Epsteins pictures as are our sexual choices. Contrary to the Chicagoans central assumption, we value different things in ways so...market, when we can pay for it, we get what we want. In politics we decide what we want and, for better or worse, what we...
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Magazine article by David Freddoso; National Review, Vol. 60, September 1, 2008
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Next Course in Food Politics Comes from the North Canadian Seafood Ban Takes Hold in Chicago, but Some Criticize Effectiveness
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 14, 2007
Next Course in Food Politics Comes from the North Canadian Seafood Ban Takes Hold in Chicago, but Some Criticize Effectiveness...fishing industry. But both industry and government say the boycott is having little or...said. "No killing is very pretty. But Ill tell you that the sealing industry...it gets," she said. The Plitt Co. of Chicago, a seafood supplier for area restaurants...
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Social Workers Celebrate 100 Years of Helping People
Newspaper article by Cheryl Wetzstein; The Washington Times, April 7, 1998
Subjects: National Association of Social Workers
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Bensenville Says Election Dots Lead to Daley Investigator Says He Can Link Local Mayoral Candidate to Chicago Machine
Newspaper article by Justin Kmitch; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 12, 2006
Subjects: Elections
...more than, as Pope called it, a "squirt gun." Former Better Government Association chief J. Terrence Brunner, who has received...airport expansion, said Wassinger "connected the dots to Chicago" himself. Brunner pointed to a Dec. 28, 2005, deposition...worked hard for my money," Pope said. "But I dont think Ill ever work in Bensenville again because of this race. "You...but that he didnt know. "When youre dealing with local politics, youre usually dealing with a pretty small pool of people...
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A Decade in Chicago Radio Hasn't Mellowed Mancow
Newspaper article by Ted Cox; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 29, 2004
...it." A listener can take issue with Mullers right-wing politics or the scatological subject matter - both clearly meant...really offensive. David Edward Smith, a former staffer for Chicago Ald. Ginger Rugai who is now at the Illinois Family Institute...talking about a man working in a political office using government money and funds to get off a show because of political dissent...it. "My contracts up at the end of July. I dont know if Ill be on the air to start that 11th year," he says. "Could...
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Ill-Considered Verb
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 15, 2008
...Democratic death march might actually hinge on a single ill-considered verb," Mr. Polman said. He added: "Hillary will...Clinton from Bimbo-gate in 1992." Vacant slots "Partisan politics has brought Washington a Home Alone government, in which more than 200 nominees for the judicial and executive...Late that year, he met with the rap giant Ludacris in his Chicago office. Ludacris, whom Pepsi dropped as a spokesman in 2004...
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