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| ⚫ | '''Chicago-style politics''' is a phrase which has been used to refer to the city of ], ]' history of ]. It has been used to refer to the ]-dominated ], or "boss," politics of Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century,<ref name=EncyOfChicago>{{cite web|last1=Flanagan|first1=Maureen|title=Politics|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/989.html|website=Encyclopedia of Chicago|publisher=Chicago History Museum, The Newberry Library, and Northwestern University|accessdate=31 August 2015 | ||
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| ⚫ | |editor1-last=Reiff|editor1-first=Janince|editor2-last=Keating|editor2-first=Ann Durkin|editor3-last=Grossman|editor3-first=James}}</ref> as well as to the administration of Chicago Mayor ],<ref name="ChicagoStyle"> | ||
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| '''Chicago-style politics''' -- Chicago politics is a cliches used for a set of characteristics associated with aspects of the political history of the ] city of ], ], (i.e., ], ], ], ]). | |||
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| |first=Jacob|last=Weisberg | |first=Jacob|last=Weisberg | ||
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| |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2012/07/mitt_romney_s_campaign_is_attempting_to_link_barack_obama_to_the_corruption_of_chicago_style_politics_of_a_different_era_.html | |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2012/07/mitt_romney_s_campaign_is_attempting_to_link_barack_obama_to_the_corruption_of_chicago_style_politics_of_a_different_era_.html | ||
| |work=Slate Magazine | |work=Slate Magazine | ||
| |accessdate=31 August 2015}}</ref><ref>Nicola Mann, "The Death And Resurrection of Chicago's Public Housing in the American Visual Imagination," Doctoral Dissertation, University of Rochester, 2011. | |||
| |accessdate=31 August 2015}}</ref> | |||
| *"Unlike other U.S. cities like New York City, Chicago never benefited from a reformist Mayor such as Fiorello LaGuardia. Instead, for the past forty-five years, Chicago has been beholden to the so-called Chicago-style politics of Richard J. Daley and his son Richard M. Daley. This one-party/one-family made the city vulnerable to corruption..."</ref><ref>John N. Kotre, </ref><ref name="Sonenshein2004">{{cite book|author=Raphael Sonenshein|title=The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and Battle for Los Angeles|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-8LsJeHxPjkC&pg=PA41|year=2004|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-11590-7|pages=41–}}</ref> and to Chicago's history of political corruption more generally.<ref name="CicconeCiccone2000">{{cite book|author1=F. Richard Ciccone|author2=Richard F. Ciccone|title=Chicago and the American Century|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ToobAQAAMAAJ|date=1 March 2000|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-8092-2329-9}}</ref> More recently, the phrase was used by ] politicians and activists during the ] and ] campaigns against ], who had lived in Chicago since 1985.<ref name="McCutcheonMark2014">{{cite book|author1=Chuck McCutcheon|author2=David Mark|title=Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes: Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Z9dhBAAAQBAJ|date=2 September 2014|publisher=ForeEdge from University Press of New England|isbn=978-1-61168-603-6}}</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | <ref name=EncyOfChicago>{{cite web|last1=Flanagan|first1=Maureen|title=Politics|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/989.html|website=Encyclopedia of Chicago|publisher=Chicago History Museum, The Newberry Library, and Northwestern University|accessdate=31 August 2015 | ||
| ⚫ | |editor1-last=Reiff|editor1-first=Janince|editor2-last=Keating|editor2-first=Ann Durkin|editor3-last=Grossman|editor3-first=James}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | The phrase has also has been used in recent years to characterize a supposedly offensive “tough, take-no-prisoners approach to politics”.<ref name=MacAskill> | ||
| A study conducted by the ] has found that since 1972 three governors before ], and a total of 1,000 public officials and businessmen have been convicted of public corruption since 1970.<ref name="wcaddr"> | |||
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| |title=Curing Corruption in Illinois: Anti-Corruption Report Number 1 | |||
| |url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/pols/ChicagoPolitics/Anti-corruptionReport.pdf | |||
| |publisher=University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Political Science | |||
| |date=3 February 2009 | |||
| |accessdate=26 January 2011 }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2015|reason=no mention of byword Chicago-style politics at given web page}} | |||
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| |last=MacAskill|first=Ewen | |last=MacAskill|first=Ewen | ||
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| |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/04/colorado-andrew-romanoff-democrats-senate | |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/04/colorado-andrew-romanoff-democrats-senate | ||
| |title=Republicans accuse White House of 'Chicago-style politics' | |title=Republicans accuse White House of 'Chicago-style politics' | ||
| ⚫ | |work=The Guardian}}</ref> | ||
| |work=The Guardian}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2015|reason=source says Chicago is a byword, not Chicago-style politics}} In 2009, the ], ] (]-]) during a weekly press briefing, stated that: "Chicago-style politics is shutting the American people out and demonizing their opponents".<ref name=Silva> | |||
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| |date=23 October 2009 | |||
| |url=http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/10/obamas_chicagostyle_politics_b.html | |||
| |title=Obama's Chicago-style politics:' Boehner | |||
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| ==Origin== | |||
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| {{off-topic|date=August 2015|Political history of Chicago}} | |||
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| During the 1880s and 1890s, Chicago had an underground radical tradition with large and highly organized socialist, anarchist and labor organizations.<ref>{{Cite book| title=Labor and Urban Politics | author=Schneirov, Richard | publisher=University of Illinois Press | date=April 1, 1998 | isbn=0-252-06676-6 | pages=173–174}}</ref> The ] had their own machine operations, typified by the "blonde boss" ], who was unseated by the U.S. Senate in 1912 because of his corrupt election methods.<ref>Joel Arthur Tarr, ''A Study In Boss Politics: William Lorimer of Chicago'' (1971)</ref> The political environment in Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s let ] flourish to the point that many Chicago policemen earned more money from pay-offs than from the city.{{or|date=September 2015}}{{cn|date=August 2015}} Before the 1930s, the Democratic Party in Chicago was divided along ethnic lines - the Irish, Polish, Italian, and other groups each controlled politics in their neighborhoods.{{cn|date=August 2015}}{{or|date=September 2015}}{{Relevance-inline|date=August 2015}} The modern era of politics was dominated by ] in many ways,{{which|date=September 2015}} and the ] became was honed by ] after his election in 1955.{{cn|date=August 2015}}{{or|date=September 2015}} ], his son, is a former mayor of Chicago and had served for 21 years as mayor and 38 as a public servant.{{cn|date=September 2015}}{{Relevance-inline|date=August 2015}} Daley announced on September 7, 2010 that he would not be seeking re-election.<ref></ref>{{dead link|date=September 2015}} Daley was succeeded by former Obama White House Chief of Staff ].{{cn|date=September 2015}}{{Relevance-inline|date=August 2015}} | |||
| Home-town columnist ] wrote satirically that Chicago's motto (''Urbs in Horto'' or "City in a Garden") should instead be ''Ubi est mea'', or "Where's Mine?<ref> ]</ref>{{Relevance-inline|reason=no mention of subject of article in source|date=August 2015}} | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| *] | *] | ||
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| ==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 03:54, 12 September 2015
Chicago-style politics is a phrase which has been used to refer to the city of Chicago, Illinois' history of political corruption. It has been used to refer to the Democratic Party-dominated machine, or "boss," politics of Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, as well as to the administration of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, and to Chicago's history of political corruption more generally. More recently, the phrase was used by Republican Party politicians and activists during the 2008 Presidential Election and 2012 Presidential Election campaigns against Barrack Obama, who had lived in Chicago since 1985.
The phrase has also has been used in recent years to characterize a supposedly offensive “tough, take-no-prisoners approach to politics”.
See also
References
- Flanagan, Maureen. Reiff, Janince; Keating, Ann Durkin; Grossman, James (eds.). "Politics". Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago History Museum, The Newberry Library, and Northwestern University. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
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Weisberg, Jacob (23 Jul 2012). Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2012/07/mitt_romney_s_campaign_is_attempting_to_link_barack_obama_to_the_corruption_of_chicago_style_politics_of_a_different_era_.html. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - Nicola Mann, "The Death And Resurrection of Chicago's Public Housing in the American Visual Imagination," Doctoral Dissertation, University of Rochester, 2011.
- "Unlike other U.S. cities like New York City, Chicago never benefited from a reformist Mayor such as Fiorello LaGuardia. Instead, for the past forty-five years, Chicago has been beholden to the so-called Chicago-style politics of Richard J. Daley and his son Richard M. Daley. This one-party/one-family made the city vulnerable to corruption..."
- John N. Kotre, The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Andrew Greeley and American Catholicism, 1950-1975.
- Raphael Sonenshein (2004). The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and Battle for Los Angeles. Princeton University Press. pp. 41–. ISBN 0-691-11590-7.
- F. Richard Ciccone; Richard F. Ciccone (1 March 2000). Chicago and the American Century. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-8092-2329-9.
- Chuck McCutcheon; David Mark (2 September 2014). Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes: Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech. ForeEdge from University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-61168-603-6.
- MacAskill, Ewen (4 June 2010). "Republicans accuse White House of 'Chicago-style politics'". The Guardian.