Grafters and Goo Goos : corruption and reform in Chicago, 1833-2003 /
"Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-2003 unfolds the city's notorious history of corruption and the counterveiling reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of crime in politics, this wide-ranging account of governmental ma...
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Frontier, Finances, and Fire: 1833-71
- 2. Businessmen Rebels: 1872-93
- 3. Progressives and Muckrackers: 1894-1909
- 4. Progressive to Prohibitionist: 1910-20
- 5. "Big Bill" and Bootleggers: 1921-33
- 6. Depression and War: 1934-45
- 7. Big Nineteen, Big Nine: 1946-59
- 8. Daley and Dissent: 1960-69
- 9. Scandals and Stings: 1970-82
- 10. "Harold!" and More Scandals and Stings: 1983-89
- 11. Daley and Dissent Redux: 1990-2003
- Chicago Political Glossary.