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	Chicago Democrat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chicago Democrat was the first newspaper in Chicago, Illinois.
		Publisher John Calhoun was a Jacksonian Democrat, lured west at the end of 1833 from Watertown, New York to start the Democrat inspired by traveler's stories about Chicago after a series of newspaper business failures in his home state of New York.
		In 1836 Calhoun handed the paper over to a syndicate of Democratic politicians, perhaps in return for the party position to which he was appointed, Cook County Treasurer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_Democrat (530 words)

	EarlyChicagoHOME
		Chicago author of The Epic of Chicago, a historical review of the city’s early years, published in 1932; son of Henry E. Hamilton, who edited Incidents and Events in the Life of Gurdon S. Hubbard; grandson of Col. Richard J. Hamilton, and first cousin twice removed of Gurdon S. Hubbard.
		Connecticut chairmaker who traveled to Chicago and St. Louis in 1835 to take orders for kits of chair parts that local chair makers could acquire and assemble; in a letter written to his partner, he stated that three chairmakers were to be found in Chicago, "the London of the West" with 4,000 to 5,000 inhabitants.
		I was married in Chicago, having to send a soldier one hundred and sixty miles, on foot, to Peoria, for a license.
	www.earlychicago.com /encyclopedia.php?letter=H (6978 words)

	Chicago Tribune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chicago Tribune, formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", remains the leading daily newspaper of the Midwestern United States.
		Medill served as mayor of Chicago for one term after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
		The Chicago Tribune is the founding business unit of The Tribune Company, which includes many newspapers and television stations around the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_Tribune (678 words)

	Public Interest Guide to Redistricting
		Democrats unveiled their plan this week, and it immediately prompted allegations from Republicans that it was designed to make the GOP the minority party in the legislature for the next decade.
		Democrats won a tie-breaker lottery drawing earlier this month and now hold a majority on the commission, so the proposed map they released Monday night is expected to pass easily, to the dismay of Republicans who are fighting the lottery provision of the Illinois Constitution in court.
		Democrats, attempting to keep the issue before the state Supreme Court, filed their own suit asking justices to uphold the tie-breaker provision and, if need be, control the final shape of the new district boundaries.
	www.fairvote.org /redistricting/reports/remanual/ilnews3.htm (7521 words)

	The heat is on by John Patterson - Illinois Issues
		Thus, with Democrats expected to maintain control of the Illinois House and make a strong run in the governor’s race, winning the Senate would give them political power they’ve not experienced in decades — and the ability to push whatever policy agenda they choose.
		Also in the northwestern Chicago suburbs, state Rep. Rosemary Mulligan, a Des Plaines Republican, is expected to face a tough challenge from Park Ridge Democrat Barbara Jones for the 65th District seat.
		Some Democrats fear overconfidence could be their demise, and observers caution political surprises may be lurking that could throw any race into turmoil.
	illinoisissues.uis.edu /features/2002sept/senate.html (3477 words)

	Chicago 1968 Democratic National Convention: An Introduction
		Chicago '68 was more than just another in a series of antiwar protests, and it was more than just a riot—no matter, whose riot.
		Chicago changed minds, Chicago changed politics, Chicago changed the Left, Chicago changed the media, Chicago changed those who were here and those who watched from far away, and Chicago changed Chicago.
		For Chicago, Chicago '68 weakened support for the last of the big-city bosses and fanned the flames of political reform.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/1553 (486 words)

	The Illinois Democrat Governors race by Aaron Chambers
		Yet Blagojevich managed to get the endorsement of the Illinois Democratic County Chairmen’s Association, comprised of the 101 Democratic county chairs outside Cook County, and the congressman is counting on the group to deliver votes.
		In Springfield, where Blagojevich served two terms in the Illinois House, he was one of the first state lawmakers to push for a truth-in-sentencing law, under which the worst violent offenders must serve 85 percent to 100 percent of their sentences.
		Blagojevich, who are all Chicago people, divide up that whole [city] and the election is going to be won in the suburbs of Cook and the collar counties,” he says.
	illinoisissues.uis.edu /features/2002jan/dem.html (4291 words)

	John_Wentworth_(mayor) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Long" John Wentworth (March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888) was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives.
		He was managing editor of Chicago's first newspaper, the Chicago Democrat, eventually becoming the owner and publisher.
		As a Republican, Wentworth served as mayor of Chicago for two terms, 1857–1858 and 1860–1861.
	www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=John_Wentworth_(mayor) (293 words)

	Mayors of Chicago
		He was an editor of Chicago's first newspaper, the Chicago Democrat and eventually entered politics, serving for 6 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
		During his administrations, Chicago's vice districts blossomed and special maps were printed to enable tourists to find their way from brothel to brothel.
		Chicago's first Black mayor, Harold Washington was able to win the primary because Jane Byrne and Richard M. Daley split the white vote.
	www.geocities.com /athens/4208/mayors.html (3948 words)

	Chicago Democrat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He did not cite, but presumably was responding to, the appearance of his first competition, the Chicago American (sponsored by a rival political party, the Whigs).
		The syndicate meanwhile hired [John Wentworth"Long" John Wentworth], newly arrived in the city with solid Democratic credentials.
		A more pressing cause was a $250,000 libel lawsuit by another of Chicago's Old Settlers, Jonathan Young Scammon.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/chicago_democrat (581 words)

	Chicago Public Radio - Audio Library: Eight Forty-Eight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Chicago Cubs continue their wild quest for the wild card, the White Sox bid farewell to U.S. Cellular Field for the 2004 season, and the Bears are wondering what the future holds for their starting quarterback.
		Democratic candidate Barack Obama is the son of a well-known former Kenyan intellectual and government official.
		The Chicago Public Schools Renaissance 2010 plan would close 60 underperforming schools, and many of the 100 new schools that would open in their place would be small charter and contract schools.
	www.chicagopublicradio.org /audio_library/848_rasep04.asp (5743 words)

	11-13-02
		Democrat Rod Blagojevich is not yet ensconced as Illinois governor, but his backers, including those close to his father-in-law, 33rd Ward Alderman Dick Mell, are already plotting a political trajectory in which Blagojevich gets re-elected as governor in 2006 and then becomes the Democrats' presidential candidate in 2008.
		Bush had 164,930 votes in Chicago, which was about 40,000 more than Jim Ryan, but Blagojevich had 250,000 fewer votes than Gore did, which is attributable to a lower turnout in the fl wards.
		Running against fl Chicago Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun in 1998, Fitzgerald carried Downstate by 323,168 votes; running against conservative Downstater Poshard, George Ryan, who is from from Kankakee, lost Downstate by 3,589 votes.
	www.russstewart.com /11-13-02.htm (1225 words)

	Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
		I see in a story this week that former FAA Administrator, Jane Garvey, is working as a consultant at the Democrat convention in Boston.
		Garvey failed to take steps to protect the nation's air fleet from terrorism before the 2001 attacks and its communications were in disarray on the morning of the hijackings, according to a damaging portrait of the agency painted by the 9/11 commission's final report, released this week.
		CHICAGO -- Mayor Richard M. Daley blasted the Federal Aviation Administration Friday for not including the city in discussions on possible flight restrictions at O'Hare International Airport, a move city officials fear would hurt travelers and small airlines.
	pages.prodigy.net /rockaway/newsletter282.htm (1724 words)

	State Rep (78th district) primary campaign
		A number of questions are raised in the Chicago Tribune article (March 27, 2002) regarding the number of absentee ballots in the 35th precinct of the 29th Ward (Isaac Carothers, alderman) and also regarding the number of voter registrations in that precinct.
		Tom Leach, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections, agreed the number of absentee ballots appeared to be “very high” in the 35th precinct of the 29th Ward of the district, in Chicago.
		Democrats on the March 2002 primary ballot is from the local villages.
	www.math.uic.edu /~takata/Oak_Park/State_Rep_articles.htm (3928 words)

	Blagojevich, Ryan, Durkin Win in Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		CHICAGO — Rep. Rod Blagojevich, D-Ill., overcame a poor showing in Chicago and its suburbs to eke out a narrow victory over former Chicago schools chief Paul Vallas and capture the Democrat gubernatorial nomination Tuesday.
		On the Democrat side, with 96 percent of the vote counted, Blagojevich led Vallas 37 percent to 34 percent.
		Blagojevich, the son-in-law of powerful Chicago Alderman Dick Mell, who had the backing of the Chicago Democrat machine, ran a dismal third behind former Attorney General and Comptroller Roland Burris, the first fl ever elected to statewide office, and Vallas, who dominated the suburban vote.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/3/20/152453.shtml (909 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, a Chicago Democrat, talks with his daughter Maile Ann, 5, as his wife Michelle holds their other daughter Natasha, 2, in their hotel suite on the evening of last week's U.S. Senate Democratic primary, which he later won.
		Veteran political observers and Democratic Party insiders throughout the country had written off this Hawaii-born civil rights lawyer, law professor and Illinois state senator who was trying to win that state's Democratic nomination for U.S. senator.
		In addition, he was named senior lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School in 1992, and was elected state senator in 1997.
	starbulletin.com /2004/03/21/news/story4.html (968 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Cook County, Ill. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		mayor of Chicago, Ill., 1879-87, 1893; died in office 1893; candidate for Governor of Illinois, 1884.
		Pardoned the surviving protesters of the Haymarket incident in Chicago, and refused to send troops against the Pullman railway strikers.
		Governor of Illinois, 1944 (Democratic), 1948; circuit judge in Illinois, 1949-70.
	politicalgraveyard.com /geo/IL/CO5.html (3028 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- Notable Impresarios of Jazz Age Chicago
		Career: Arrived in Chicago from Greece, 1904; partnered with Nicholas Nomikos to build several neighborhood theaters, 1910s; quit theater buisness when he and brother William built the Trianon Ballroom, 1922; opened Aragon Ballroom, 1926.
		Chicago Art Institute, 1912-13 and 1919-22, and Academy of Fine Arts, New York, 1919; m.
		Career: Moved to Chicago, 1903; worked for brother Albert at Pixley and Ehler's Restaurants; opened own restaurant, Pixley and Wheaton, 1909; acquired two more restaurants by 1915; bought out Wheaton, 1916; merged with Pixley and Ehlers, 1919; named vice president, Pixley and Ehlers, 1919; served as civilian consultant to secretary of war, 1943-45.
	chicago.urban-history.org /scrapbks/bios/bios_a-z.htm (1860 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		The NBC affiliate in Milwaukee has just filmed Democratic campaign workers handing out small amounts of money and free food to residents at a home for the mentally ill in Kenosha after which the patients were shepherded into a separate room and given absentee ballots.
		One of the Democratic Party workers fled when she saw the NBC camera.
		Robert Jambois, the Kenosha County District Attorney, says the case is a headache for him because he has endorsed Jim Doyle, the Democratic candidate for governor, and because the Democratic worker who fled the scene was an intern in his own office.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110002530 (568 words)

	Man in the News: A Son of Chicago
		Daley, the youngest son of Chicago's most famous mayor and the brother of its current one, inherits a campaign that has been described by some Democrats as adrift, dispirited and plagued by divisions.
		Today, both Democrats and Republicans who support the China bill lamented that he would not be there to push it through the Senate.
		But Democrats said they expect him to bring the efficiency to the campaign that his father brought to running Chicago.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/camp/061600wh-gore-daley.html (854 words)

	JACK@SSES, PIGS, andPARROTS [Free Republic]
		They make up roughly 50% of the Democrat party and are characterized by voting Democrat because that's what they have always done and that's what their parents have always done.
		It came as no surprise to those of us in Chicago that Al Gore's election-stealing scheme was headed up by Mayor-brother Bill Daley and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the two lead overseers of the Jack@sses on the Chicago Democrat plantation.
		Their mission in life is simple: to make the misfortunes and tragedies of others work to their own benefit in terms of wealth and power.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a270bd06665.htm (524 words)

	Chicago (Democrat) Politicians bugged by wired (Republican) worker [Free Republic]
		He was a mid-level state bureaucrat in George Ryan's secretary of state office with the seemingly obscure job of overseeing Chicago area office leases.
		The only place where the word "democrat" appears is in your title, and your comment after the article.
		It happened in Chicago Heights, where 16 elected and appointed officials were suspected of wrongdoing and later indicted on corruption charges in the early 1990s.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b141cd72542.htm (3658 words)

	Chicago Defender / Local
		Calling Cook County's hiring practices as bad as Chicago's, County Board Commissioner Mike Quigley on Tuesday called for a hiring panel to bring in the best and brightest candidates for county positions.
		Quigley, a Chicago Democrat, blasted policies of hiring "somebody-we-know's brother" one day after the county board president appointed a county official's brother to a prominent post.
		The Chicago Defender's continuing coverage of the life and legacy of John H. Johnson, founder of Ebony and Jet magazines.
	www.chicagodefender.com /page/local.cfm?ArticleID=1668 (629 words)

	The Frumious Bandersnatch has obtained the following memorandum from the Chicago political machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If you know of someone who used to live in Chicago and who died, they are still eligible to vote.
		They are legally residents of Chicago, at least for a few minutes.
		If you can't win a recount, then you are not a Chicago Democrat.
	www.bandersnatch.com /chicago2.htm (474 words)

	Illinois Republican Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Downstate voters should also remember that the Illinois House is controlled by Michael Madigan, a Chicago Democrat, and that newly configured legislative boundaries will likely give control of the Senate to Democrats and the current Senate Democrat leader Emil Jones, another Chicagoan.
		Unlike the Democratic ticket, the Republican ticket is geographically diverse with candidates from Rockford, Galesburg, Chicago and the Chicago suburbs.
		Newspapers across the state agree that a state government controlled by Chicago Democrats could be adverse for the rest of the state.
	www.ilgop.org /news/contentview.asp?c=2808 (707 words)

	Phelps Provides Mellow Voice In Congress (Chicago Tribune)
		House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Yorkville and Chicago Democrat U.S. Rep. Bill Lipinski enjoy pulling the levers of power with cold calculation.
		Republican Rep. Ray LaHood of Peoria and Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
		Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Evanston and GOP Rep. Jerry Weller of Morris are driven by policy and party loyalty.
	www.jessejacksonjr.org /issues/i040200113.html (1032 words)

	Metroblogging Chicago: Democrat Unclear on the Concept (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dick Durbin, A Democrat that IS Clear on the Concept »
		In other words, it can be terms that have been taken by specific groups like Republicans or democrats as a phrase or term that is specific to their group.
		After two weeks of a horrible response to a natural disaster, he says, "I take full responsibility." Decisive implies there would be a definite result of his action.
	chicago.metblogs.com /archives/2005/09/democrats_unlce.phtml (3136 words)

	Hihstory Club Newsletter January 2002
		In 1836, the Chicago Democrat announced that Miss Isabella Kay, of Edinburgh, Scotland, would start a “select class” of young ladies in French.
		His textbook was a speller brought from Detroit to Chicago in a chest of tea.
		Our records are probably incomplete, but there was a board meeting held on March 12, 1931, at the Chicago Athletic Association and no mention is made of John A. Williamson.
	www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Newsletters/2002/July02-4.htm (389 words)

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