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6 unusual facts about mayor of Chicago


Boston mayoral election, 1983

King's campaign gained momentum through a voter registration drive and visits from Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young.

Chicago Race Riot of 1919

William Hale Thompson was the Mayor of Chicago during the riot and a game of brinksmanship with Illinois Governor Frank Lowden may have exacerbated the riot since Thompson refused to ask Lowden to send in the militia for four days, despite Lowden ensuring the militia was in Chicago and ready to intervene.

Consulate-General of Pakistan, Chicago

An inaugural ceremony was held on Saturday January 22, with Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, inaugurating the consulate.

Cornelius Shea

On April 16, anonymous charges of graft against Shea and other strike leaders were filed with office of Mayor Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne (who had been inaugurated only days earlier).

Francis Trowbridge Sherman

Sherman was born in Connecticut in 1825 but his family moved to Illinois in 1834 where his father, Francis Cornwall Sherman became heavily involved in Chicago politics serving as alderman and mayor of the city and as a state representative.

Pete Rouse

When Rahm Emanuel left the White House in October 2010 to run for Mayor of Chicago, Rouse became the "interim" Chief of Staff at the White House.


Administrative divisions of Illinois

Elected boards of education govern these districts, except for the Chicago Public Schools and the City Colleges of Chicago, for which the boards are appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Chicago City Council, and the special charter districts, which may have elected or appointed boards.

Bernard Epton

In 1983 he lost a close and contentious election for Mayor of Chicago; he would have become the city's first Jewish mayor, and its first Republican mayor since William "Big Bill" Thompson was defeated in 1931.

Casimir Zeglen

In 1893, after the assassination of Carter Harrison, Sr., the mayor of Chicago, he invented the first commercial bulletproof vest.

Chicago Spire

Chicago Mayor Daley said he approved of the design, stating that it was environmentally friendly.

David Zarefsky

Some of Zarefsky's more notable students include: University of California, Irvine Founding Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky; United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit federal appellate judge Merrick B. Garland; and former White House Chief of Staff and current Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel.

Joffrey Tower

The placement of the Joffrey Ballet in this building appears to have involved political dealings with the Mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley and his brother, William M. Daley, a co-chairman of the Joffrey board of trustees.

Oscar G. Mayer, Sr.

At the urging of the Mayor of Chicago, Carter Harrison, Jr., Mayer became involved in Chicago civic organizations, starting in 1912 when he was named to the board of the Chicago Public Library.

Timothy C. Evans

Evans ran in the 1989 special election for Mayor of Chicago to fill Washington's term as independent candidate and lost the 1989 election to Richard M. Daley.

Wilhelm Rosenberg

There was subsequently some effort towards unity of the two factions, with Thomas J. Morgan put forward for Mayor of Chicago in 1891 as the joint nominee of the official SLP and the Rosenberg organization.


see also

Alson

Alson Sherman (1811–1903), served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1844–1845), for the Independent Democrat Party

Carter Harrison

Carter Harrison, Jr. (1860–1953), mayor of Chicago, 1897–1905 & 1911–1915

Century Airlines pilots' strike

Several more congressmen vocalized their displeasure with Cord’s conduct including Representative William Larson from Georgia as well as Melvin Maas of Minnesota who asked the Secretaries of War and Navy to discourage military pilots on leave from flying Century planes, while two more representatives contacted the Mayor of Chicago to ask him to investigate the business affairs of Cord in Chicago.

Charles Gray

Charles McNeill Gray (1807–1885), American politician, Mayor of Chicago, 1853–1854

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

They also worked on the successful campaign to get African-American progressive Harold Washington elected as mayor of Chicago in 1983 and reelected in 1987.

Human Resources Management Association of Chicago

Jane Byrne, Mayor of Chicago at the time, gave the keynote speech, “Building a Better Business Climate".

Miró's Chicago

In 1979 the first female Mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne, agreed to find funds for the sculpture assuming that another 50% could be found elsewhere.

Ned Brown Forest Preserve

Busse Forest Preserve (Busse Woods) is named for former mayor of Chicago Fred A. Busse.

Nollaig Ó Gadhra

He authored several important academic works, including biographies of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Mahatma Gandhi, Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley and John Boyle O'Reilly, many of which were written in Irish.

Richard Daley

Richard J. Daley (1902–1976), Mayor of Chicago (1955–1976), father of Richard M. Daley

Richard M. Daley (born 1942), Mayor of Chicago (1989–2011), son of Richard J. Daley

The Norlands

Hempstead Washburne (1851-1918), Attorney of Chicago, Illinois 1885-1889; Mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1891-1893.

William Ogden

William Butler Ogden (1805–1877), American politician and first mayor of Chicago