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Author: Lloyd Wendt Publisher: Midland Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 408
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A study of the two political bosses of Chicago's First Ward during the early-twentieth century illuminates their ambitions, eccentricities, and use of power.
Author: Lloyd Wendt Publisher: Midland Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
A study of the two political bosses of Chicago's First Ward during the early-twentieth century illuminates their ambitions, eccentricities, and use of power.
Author: Lloyd Wendt Publisher: Midland Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
A study of the two political bosses of Chicago's First Ward during the early-twentieth century illuminates their ambitions, eccentricities, and use of power.
Author: Robert M. Lombardo Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252094484 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 291
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This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago and other large American cities, Robert M. Lombardo challenges the dominant belief that organized crime in America descended directly from the Sicilian Mafia. According to this widespread "alien conspiracy" theory, organized crime evolved in a linear fashion beginning with the Mafia in Sicily, emerging in the form of the Black Hand in America's immigrant colonies, and culminating in the development of the Cosa Nostra in America's urban centers. Looking beyond this Mafia paradigm, this volume argues that the development of organized crime in Chicago and other large American cities was rooted in the social structure of American society. Specifically, Lombardo ties organized crime to the emergence of machine politics in America's urban centers. From nineteenth-century vice syndicates to the modern-day Outfit, Chicago's criminal underworld could not have existed without the blessing of those who controlled municipal, county, and state government. These practices were not imported from Sicily, Lombardo contends, but were bred in the socially disorganized slums of America where elected officials routinely franchised vice and crime in exchange for money and votes. This book also traces the history of the African-American community's participation in traditional organized crime in Chicago and offers new perspectives on the organizational structure of the Chicago Outfit, the traditional organized crime group in Chicago.
Author: Harold L. Platt Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226670759 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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Describes consumers' shifting habits of fuel consumption, tracing how use of wood led to burning coal and coal gas, to the arrival, to the arrival of the arc lamp, and then the coming of electricity. Shows that the city government and utility brokers faced two problems: how to generate a cheap supply of electricity, and how to sell electrical energy to people who were already enjoying gas services. The solutions were found by Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison Company, who put electrical technology on a sound economic footing.
Author: Dennis R. Judd Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317349547 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 465
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This text provides a foundation for understanding the politics of America's cities and urban regions. Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme - that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction among governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity - City Politics remains a classic study of urban politics.
Author: Terrence J. McDonald Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520329996 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 376
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.
Author: Donald L. Miller Publisher: Rosetta Books ISBN: 0795339852 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1084
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“A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history” and the inspiration behind PBS’s American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Depicting its turbulent beginnings to its current status as one of the world’s most dynamic cities, City of the Century tells the story of Chicago—and the story of America, writ small. From its many natural disasters, including the Great Fire of 1871 and several cholera epidemics, to its winner-take-all politics, dynamic business empires, breathtaking architecture, its diverse cultures, and its multitude of writers, journalists, and artists, Chicago’s story is violent, inspiring, passionate, and fascinating from the first page to the last. The winner of the prestigious Great Lakes Book Award, given to the year’s most outstanding books highlighting the American heartland, City of the Century has received consistent rave reviews since its publication in 1996, and was made into a six-hour film airing on PBS’s American Experience series. Written with energetic prose and exacting detail, it brings Chicago’s history to vivid life. “With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago history.” —John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times “Brims with life, with people, surprise, and with stories.” —David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of John Adams and Truman “An invaluable companion in my journey through Old Chicago.” —Erik Larson, New York Times–bestselling author of The Devil in the White City
Author: Milton L. Rakove Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253202024 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 324
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Blending anecdote with theory and description in a lively style, Rakove has bridged the gap between scholar and layman in a work that will appeal to both.
Author: Lloyd Wendt
Author: Lloyd Wendt
Author: Lloyd Wendt
Author: Lloyd Wendt
Author: Lloyd Wendt
Author: Robert M. Lombardo
Author: Harold L. Platt
Author: Dennis R. Judd
Author: Terrence J. McDonald
Author: Donald L. Miller
Author: Milton L. Rakove