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	Great Depression
		When general prosperity returned in 1940, Chicago had an entrenched Democratic machine, a fully solvent city government, and a population that, while still heavily segregated racially, had enthusiastically shared mass culture and mass movements.
		The Democratic Party was one key beneficiary of the public's new interest in politics and mass reform movements.
		Impressed with the dramatic returns furnished by the Chicago machine, and with the dramatic social unrest caused by mass unemployment, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged agency heads to be generous with New Deal funds in the city.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/542.html (848 words)

	Roosevelt University - History of Chicago - Module 3 Chapter 2
		Chicago, being the largest manufacturing city in the country, was especially hard hit and by 1932, the worst year, 750,000 Chicagoans were out of work and only 800,000 had jobs.
		Chicago was to celebrate its one hundredth birthday in 1933 with a giant exhibition of all the latest in science and technology.
		Chicago legislature had opposed the new taxes because it had been politically expedient to do so in 1935, but Republican and rural legislators had traditionally fought tax increases arguing that "cheats and chiselers" had to be removed from relief rolls before any new taxes would be passed.
	www.roosevelt.edu /chicagohistory/mod3-chap2.htm (4287 words)

	Cook County Democratic Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Commonly called the "Chicago machine", the organization dominated Chicago politics from the 1930's to the 1970's.
		The most famous example of the Chicago machine in action was in the 1960 presidential election.
		Under the regular machine was an African-American "sub-machine" led by William L. Dawson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_Democratic_Machine (647 words)

	Political machine Summary
		Machines sometimes have a boss, and always have a long-term corps of dedicated workers who depend on the patronage generated by government contracts and jobs.
		Many machines formed in cities to serve immigrants to the U.S. in the late nineteenth century; the immigrants were unfamiliar with the sense of civic duty that was part of American republicanism.
		The New Deal allowed the machines to recruit for the WPA and CCC, but when those agencies were abolished in 1943 the machines suddenly lost much of their patronage.
	www.bookrags.com /Political_machine (1194 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chicago's politics lean famously to the left compared to the rest of the Midwest, and it is often said that Chicago is the "East Coast" of the Midwest.
		The Lyric Opera of Chicago was founded in 1954 and performs in the Civic Opera Building, which was built in 1929 on the east bank of the Chicago River and is the second-largest opera auditorium in North America, with 3,563 seats.
		Chicago then became one of the largest grain and lumber ports in the world, with grain being sent to more established populations and lumber being sent to the forest-starved prairies where new settlers needed to build.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/chicago (6626 words)

	Chicago City Guide and Yellow Pages at SuperPages.com
		Chicago, IL Chicago is the largest city in Illinois and the seat of Cook County.
		Chicago's vast metropolitan area (the third largest in the U.S.) is known informally as "Chicagoland" and encompasses ten separate counties, including two in Indiana and one in Wisconsin.
		Chicago's meat-packing industry rivaled that of Cincinnati's, and the city became known as "hog butcher to the world." The city was devastated by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but that did little to curtail the city's growth.
	www.superpages.com /cities/Chicago-IL.html (1772 words)

	Irish Politics
		The 11th was one of Chicago's famous "river wards," the bloc of working-class and slum wards along the Chicago River that were the mainstay of Chicago's Democratic machine.
		But if the Irish did not run Chicago — most of the businesses, banks, and newspapers were in Protestant hands — they did dominate the Democratic machine out of all proportion to their numbers.
		At the top of the machine was the county chairman, or party boss, who was elected by ward committeemen from the city's fifty wards, along with a smaller number of committeemen from the suburban townships.
	www.chicagohistory.info /stories/daley/irishpolitics.html (3639 words)

	Chicago
		Chicago (IPA pronunciation ÊÉªËkaËgo, ÊiËkÃ¦ËgÉ”; shi-cah-go, shi-caw-go) is the largest city in the state of Illinois, the largest in the Midwest, and, with a population of three million people, is the third-most populous city in the United States.
		Chicago is located in Cook County which, with a population of 5,376,741 (2000), is the second most populous in the United States.
		Chicago is located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan and is a major center of transportation, industry, politics, culture, finance, medicine and higher education.
	www.photonicsknowledge.com /search/Chicago (6139 words)

	Men v. Machine in Chicago - TIME
		Chicago's Democratic machine swept the city primary last week, and porcine (245 Ibs.) Alderman Mathias Bauler, who has fattened for 40-odd years on machine politics, celebrated by dancing a jig in his favorite trough, City Hall.
		Last week the machine mowed down Mayor Martin Kennelly, 67, a businessman with snow-white hair and matching reputation, who was drafted in 1947 to save the Democrats from defeat (after the noisome reign of Boss Ed Kelly).
		Flushed with confidence after last November's Democratic victory in congressional elections, the leaders decided that Kennelly's degree of independence was an unnecessary nuisance.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,861279,00.html (523 words)

	Chicago Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chicago’s jazz and blues scene is legendary (the city’s industrial base made it a magnet for southern fls moving north).
		This novelistic account of Chicago’s meatpacking industry in the early 20th century, as experienced by eastern European immigrants, won its author a place among the ranks of the original muckrackers.
		Chicago’s rich architectural history is brought to life in this collection of rare photos.
	www.nd.edu /~druccio/Chi-reading.html (435 words)

	Rockford Register Star - Rockford's Newspaper and Website - Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Democratic nomination in Illinois used to be won or lost in Chicago.
		Hynes, the son of a Chicago ward boss, is endorsed by Mike Madigan, another Chicago ward boss who is chair of the Illinois Democratic Party and speaker of the Illinois House.
		Though candidates still court organizational support in Chicago and Democratic power still emanates from the city, strategists now say Democratic candidates must have another arm of support to be successful in the primary.
	www.rrstar.com /opinion/columnists/chambers/20040214-12263.shtml (535 words)

	The new face of the Democratic Party -- and America - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		More than twice as many Democrats as Republicans voted in the primary elections on March 16, even though the Republicans ran a seven-person race for the Senate nomination that was highlighted by a barrage of TV advertising as a group of multimillionaires squared off against one another.
		More than one veteran Democrat claims to have told Obama it was too soon to move on to another office, but he was eager to take on Rush, whose rhetorical victories have often outpaced his achievements as a representative.
		Richard M. Daley, Chicago's Democratic mayor, had forged an alliance with the Republican governor, George Ryan, to promote a gun-control bill fiercely opposed by the National Rifle Association and the Republican majority leader of the state Senate.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/03/30/obama/index_np.html (1516 words)

	Metcalfe
		Achieved worldwide fame as an athlete before he became a politician and a symbol of independence from the Democratic machine for Chicago's fls.
		A former chairman of the Chicago City Council's housing committee, Metcalfe worked to expand the availability of home improvement loans and federal housing programs and to improve the safety of residents in public housing projects.
		In 1972 Metcalfe broke with Chicago's Democratic machine over the issue of police brutality in the fl community.
	diadelaetnia.homestead.com /Metcalfe.html (400 words)

	History Files - Parades, Protests and Politics
		In 1860, Republicans selected Chicago because Illinois, one of the conservative states of the north, was the key to Republican victory.
		Since 1860, when the emerging city welcomed the Republican Convention, Chicago has gone to great lengths to welcome conventioneers by building convention halls, providing large financial contributions to the parties, and extending its hospitality to delegates and officials.
		At the 1860 Republican Convention, Chicago's 42 hotels were inadequate, forcing delegates to sleep on cots or billiard tables.
	www.chicagohs.org /history/politics.html (315 words)

	Law and government of Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch and is made up of 50 aldermen, one elected from each ward in the city.
		The modern era of politics is still in many ways dominated by machine politics, a style honed and perfected by Richard J. Daley after his election in 1955.
		Richard J. Daley's mastery of machine politics preserved the Chicago Democratic Machine long after the demise of similar machines in other large American cities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Law_and_government_of_Chicago (552 words)

	Political machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Political machines generally steer away from issue-based politics, favoring a quid pro quo (something for something) with certain aspects of a barter economy or gift economy: the patron or "boss" does favors for the constituents, who then vote as they are told to.
		The New Deal allowed machines to recruit for the WPA and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), but when those agencies were abolished in 1943 the machines suddenly lost much of their patronage.
		Machines are often said to have drawn their strength from, and served as a power base for, ethnic immigrant populations.
	www.surfindark.com /index.cgi/000110A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_machine (1351 words)

	Obama deals with state's gritty political reputation :: The Courier News :: News ::
		CHICAGO -- Democrat Barack Obama piled on the praise last month as he stood beside Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and embraced the mayor's bid for a sixth term.
		While Obama prides himself as an independent-minded Democrat, he's maintained relations with important parts of the establishment, from remnants of the legendary Chicago Democratic machine to the city's leading fl politicians.
		Yet as an outsider who came to the city as an adult, he doesn't owe his political fortunes to ward bosses and can claim distance from the political corruption for which the city is famous.
	www.suburbanchicagonews.com /couriernews/news/273988,3_1_EL27_A4OBAMA_S1.article (579 words)

	Chicago- Illinois Issues, November, 1980
		The 1980 presidential election is the first such election in a quarter of a century in which the firm hand of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley is not on the tiller of the local Democratic ship of state as the machine prepares for its quadrennial national political effort.
		During the Daley years in Chicago, presidential, as well as statewide candidates, not only had to defer to the late mayor's wishes on matters of electoral strategy, but were prohibited from forming citizens' organizations to support their candidates without his permission.
		The breach grew steadily wider between the White House and the Chicago machine.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1980/ii801132.html (737 words)

	Pol ruled Cook County for decades: Scandals couldn't dent charm of Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		George W. Dunne, for years among the most powerful cogs in the once-mighty Chicago Democratic Machine who worked his way up from playlot supervisor to Cook County Board president and heir-apparent to Richard J. Daley, died Sunday afternoon.
		During his epic career, Dunne was Chicago Park District assistant general superintendent, Democratic Central Committee chairman, and longtime committeeman of the 42nd Ward -- serving in many capacities simultaneously.
		Dunne was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic convention.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060530/ai_n16432400 (869 words)

	personal
		This time the walk won’t be on the Chicago lakefront, but in the halls of schools, in the pews of churches, in the hearts of all Americans.
		Obama’s astonishing victory in the Democratic primary earlier this year was produced by a broad interracial coalition of voters across the state.
		To the extent that the Democratic party is the party of big government, it is a party that directly benefits the economic interest of African Americans.
	home.uchicago.edu /~mvharris/notablog.html (8233 words)

	Harold Washington
		The fl community is considered a sub-machine, not a partner, not a coalition or an operator, but a machine, a subordinate to the major machine.
		For example, if one wants to be an alderman in one of the fl wards, or the white wards, for that matter (we were just talking about the fl wards), one has to be screened and sifted through the ward committeeman in that ward, even though the automatic position is a non-partisan position.
		But at any rate, that's one reason why the Democratic machine has maintained such awesome control, because it controlled the selection of the people who were sworn to represent certain given individuals.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /blackchicago/washington2.html (677 words)

	Lots of choices in Illinois Senate race - Politics - MSNBC.com
		A University of Chicago law professor and member of the state Senate, Obama has also received praise for his smarts and his dynamic speeches.
		Another person in the Democratic race to keep an eye on is Maria Pappas, at the very least for the color she brings to the field.
		As Cook County treasurer, Pappas is a well-known name to the Chicago area, and she is also viewed as an impressive vote-getter.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4442628 (1729 words)

	"" by Paul Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The most notorious Chicago Democrat to find himself behind bars after a federal investigation was former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski.
		Robert Sorich, former “patronage chief” for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, along with three colleagues, are currently on trial for using political clout to fill city jobs.
		After mentioning the historical scandals involving the Democratic machine of Chicago, I remind you that a few weeks ago former Republican Governor George Ryan was convicted of 18 counts of fraud and will be the third governor in Illinois history to do time in prison.
	www.chronwatch.com /site.asp?id=21551 (1007 words)

	Chicago rebuilt machine, U.S. says
		Chicago's Democratic machine traditionally operated by doling out public jobs to political loyalists.
		Instead, prosecutors are expected to describe a thriving machine centered in the Daley family's 11th Ward that gave jobs to "goofballs" and workers who "did not know what they were doing"--so long as they had the right political or labor union connections.
		Three of the four defendants have strong ties to the 11th Ward Democrats, a group led by the mayor's brother John Daley, a Cook County commissioner.
	www.dailypress.com /news/chi-0605080120may08,0,4319108.story (993 words)

	Chicago Defender / Local
		Now, almost 19 years later, federal prosecutors are circling like bloodthirsty sharks around the administration of the current mayor, Richard M. Daley (another familiar name), and many of the same names, with different titles, are jockeying for their slice of power.
		For 20 years Despres was one of the city's most vocal opponents of the corruption and excesses of the fabled Chicago Democratic Machine, run by Mayor Richard J. Daley.
		The likelihood of a white candidate splitting the vote with Daley in the next mayoral election is slim, but the current scandals at City Hall and the health of Daley's wife, Maggie, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2002, could become key factors in the 2007 race and Daley's decision to seek another term.
	www.chicagodefender.com /page/local.cfm?ArticleID=6409 (1083 words)

	Obama routs Democratic foes; Ryan tops crowded GOP field \| Chicago Tribune
		Though Obama, the son of a Kenyan immigrant, lagged in polls as late as mid-February, he surged to the front of the pack in recent weeks after he began airing television commercials and the fl community rallied behind him.
		In his campaign, Obama said he would "act like a Democrat" if he were sent to Washington, an implication that current Senate Democrats have ceded ideological arguments to Republicans for political expediency.
		Obama, for example, was a vocal critic of the Iraq invasion when most Democrats were still mulling their positions or supported the war.
	www.chicagotribune.com /chi-0403170332mar17,0,7453142.story?coll=chi-news-col (1151 words)

	MyDD :: Unreformed Democrats, Chicago Edition
		Instead, my problem was that Richard Daley was placed among the top five mayors, even though Chicago's Democratic machine is at least as corrupt and unreformed as Philadelphia's.
		Daley's machine is the backbone of the state Democratic Party.
		Seriously, I live in Chicago, and am not convinced that city services are all that swell outside of the the high-visibility high-income areas.
	www.mydd.com /story/2005/7/28/164941/833 (1779 words)

	Chicago Progressive Democrats of America
		Progressive Democrats of America, or PDA, is a national organization which unites disparate groups; Greens, Deans, Rainbow Push, Pink, the Peace Movement and Hip Hop under the banner of PDA representing a really diverse, multicultural community.
		The Chicago Bread and Butter Forum advocates that bread and butter issues, such as “jobs, health care, retirement, the costs of housing, education, [and] energy,” should remain at “the heart of the Democratic agenda”.
		Progressive Democrats of America Chicago Metropolitan Chapter members Steve Oren and Lorin Klugman sent out notifications for the May Day events and PDA Economic Justice flyers were distributed to attendees of a massive rally held in Chicago's Grant Park.
	www.pdachicago.com /index.html (3625 words)

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