Hyde Park and Lake Senators oppose Galligan drainage probe
Illinois Senate debate over Senator Galligan’s investigation into the drainage board ends with a 15 to 18 vote to suspend rules. Mahoney attacks the board as corrupt while McCloud and Butler defend voters and district interests.
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Drainage Gang
Illinois
Galligan
McCloud
Milchrist
Butler
Hyde Park and Lake
Milchrist and
Hyde Park
Aleck Jones
Tom Gahan
Hopkins
Braden
Mike Butler
Lake District
Chicago
Senate
Mahoney
Drainage Board
Sanitary District
Committee On Drainage and Waterways
A. J. Jones
Jones
Campbell
Committee On Waterways and Drainage
Sonderstand
Cook
Senator McCloud
Senator Mahoney
Drainage Ring Threatens Chicago Politics and Drainage Plans
A rousing call denounces plural graft and Drainage Ring influence in Chicago. It urges purging county committees and replacing officials amid debate over the failed drainage channel and a proposed lower level sewer system to reduce costs and improve drainage.
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Chicago
the Eeagle
Thie
Alan ‘Low
Joliet
Culver
Springfield graft probe eyed over 30000 vote buy scheme
Grand jury in Sangamon County faces a potential investigation into alleged 30000 raised to buy votes for graft measures in Springfield. Reports claim contractors and sympathizers funded purchases of influence at 875 per head. In Chicago, Joseph A. O Donnell becomes president of a reform ward group later known as Community Club of the Seventeenth Ward.
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Springfield
Ilion
Joseph A. O'Donnell
Cook County
Chicago
Municipal Club
Neighborhood League
Seventeenth Ward
Community Club
Chicago Commons
Morgan and
Grand Avenues
John W. Hanley
Cook County Democrats back Hon. Jeremiah Leaming for judge
The Democrats of Cook County could not nominate a stronger candidate for judge than the Hon. Jeremiah Leaming of 1113 Ashland block. Leaming is among Chicago’s busiest masters in chancery. Hon. Charles Burmeister stands as a potential county clerk candidate.
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Cook County
Jeremiah Leaming
Ashland Block
Leaming
Chicago
The Great Drainage Canal Fraud Debate
A letter to the editors rails at Chicago drainage canal plans as a vast graft that enriches only the builders while failing to purify drinking water. It argues two thirds of the city sewage still enters the lake and questions the need for widening or deepening the river and canal.
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Gordon HL
Nott
Draimage Canal
Hed
Cnmal
Randolph
Health Department
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Hyde Park and
Lake
Jack Shea
Arapahoes
Nicholas Hunt
America
Elmore W. Hurst
Harrison
Jim Reddick
Blount
The
West Park Board
Republican County Central Committee
Grand Jury
Carter H. Tarvison
Robert E. Burke
Carter H, Harrison
Democratic County Central Committee
A. G. Cox
Rubber Paint Company
Charles Burmeister
Chicago Drainage Canal
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