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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Simpson, Dick W. Rogues, rebels, and rubber stamps. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001 (OCoLC)606432703 Online version: Simpson, Dick W. Rogues, rebels, and rubber stamps. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001 (OCoLC)607785258 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dick W Simpson |
| ISBN: | 0813397634 9780813397634 |
| OCLC Number: | 45103026 |
| Description: | xiii, 342 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface / Studs Terkel -- Prologue: The Clash in the Council -- Revising Regime Studies -- Studying the Chicago City Council -- Divided Councils -- Nineteenth-Century and Civil War Councils: 1833-1871 -- Mayor and Party Leaders in the Civil War City Council -- Civil War Clashes -- The Powers of Local Government -- The End of the War, 1863-1865 -- The Councils of the Gray Wolves, 1871-1931 -- The Birth of Chicago Machine Politics, 1871-1905 -- Edward Dunne's Council, 1905-1907 -- Fred Busse's Council, 1907-1908 -- Big Bill Thompson's Councils, 1915-1923 and 1927-1931 -- Fragmented City Councils -- Rubber Stamp Councils -- Kelly-Nash Machine Council, 1933-1947 -- The City Council, 1939-1940 -- The Chicago Machine -- Richard J. Daley's Rubber Stamp, 1955-1976 -- Aldermanic Elections of 1955 -- The Council of 1955 -- Richard J. Daley's Last Years -- Participatory Versus Machine Politics -- Michael Bilandic's Interlude, 1976-1979 -- The Bilandic Council -- The Silent Revolution -- Jane Byrne's Turmoil, 1979-1983 -- The Byrne Council: Young Turks Come to Power -- Tearing Down the Daley Machine -- Growing Revolt in the African-American Community -- Council Wars and Chaos -- Harold Washington's Council Wars, 1983-1987 -- 1983 Campaign -- Council Wars -- 1987 Elections -- From Council Wars to Rubber Stamp -- The Brief Triumph of Progressive Politics -- Eugene Sawyer's Chaos, 1987-1989 -- Sawyer's Selection -- The Sawyer City Council -- Chaotic Interlude -- Return to Mayoral Control -- Daley's Return, 1989-2003 -- Democratic Primary. |
| Series Title: | Urban policy challenges. |
| Responsibility: | Dick Simpson ; with a preface by Studs Terkel. |
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