Jane Byrne and the New Chicago Politics
Author | : Milton L. Rakove |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Milton L. Rakove |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Byrne |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2004-07-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0810120879 |
The two-fisted memoir of Chicago's first woman mayor.
Author | : Bill Granger |
Publisher | : Dial |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Biography of Jane Byrne, Chicago's 40th mayor from April 16, 1979 until April 29, 1983, and the city's first female mayor.
Author | : Bill Granger |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Michael Green |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780809388455 |
Author | : Larry Bennett |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226042952 |
Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends—is such a powerful shaper of the city’s identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City—inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko—with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now: the third city. Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley’s charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades.
Author | : Ben Austen |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062235087 |
Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000—all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago’s ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource—it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America’s public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly though the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex’s demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation’s effort to provide affordable housing to the poor—and what we can learn from those mistakes.
Author | : Paul M. Green |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2013-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809331993 |
Originally released in 1987, The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition gathered some of the finest minds in political thought to provide shrewd analysis of Chicago’s mayors and their administrations. Twenty-five years later, this fourth edition continues to illuminate the careers of some of Chicago’s most respected, forceful, and even notorious mayors, leaders whose lives were often as vibrant and eclectic as the city they served. In addition to chapters on the individual mayors—including a new chapter on Rahm Emanuel, enhanced by an expert explanation of the current state of the city’s budget by Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation—this new edition offers an insightful overview of the Chicago mayoral tradition throughout the city’s history; rankings of the mayors evaluated on their leadership and political qualities; an appendix of Chicago’s mayors and their years of service; and additional updated materials. Chicago’s mayoral history is one of corruption and reform, scandal and ambition. This well-researched volume, more relevant than ever twenty-five years after its first edition, presents an intriguing and informative glimpse into the fascinating lives and legacies of Chicago’s most influential leaders.
Author | : Samuel Kimball Gove |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathleen Whalen FitzGerald |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |