Great Battle of 1910 and Prohibition Debates Rise
A survey of political clashes and legal challenges surrounding local option laws, parole and salary acts, and court seats. Amid court fights over paroled labor and judge salaries, Chicago figures push for reform, standardization of city contracts, and battles over temperance and governance.
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Nicholas R. Finn
Joseph Babath
W. D. Munhall
R. W. Clifford
Frank R. Cain
George Mills Rogers
William E. Dever
Johnson J. W. O'Donnell
Richard E. Burke
Daniel L. Cruke
William A. Doyle
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Joseph E. Flanagan
Ernat Hummel
Oscar FP
Peter Reinberg
Harry Hildreth, Jr
George Duddleston
Tom N. Donnelly
John G. Neumeister
William H. Lyman
Herman J. Bayler
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Charles F. Gunther
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Thomas W. Gilmore
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John R. Caverly
John F. Clare
John K. Prindiville
James C, Martin
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Theodore C. Mayer
Francis J. Sullivan
Richard J. Finn
James C. Dooley
Louis Levy
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Thos. F. Scully
Walter H. Wilson
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Homer E. Tiesman
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Cyril R. Jandus
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Julius F. Smietanka
William B. Mason
Charles B. Cruikshank
Pliny B. Smith
John F. Holland
Ernest Saunders
Frank P. Schmitt
Benjamin F. Richolson
Homer
Tinsman
James
Hopkins Charles B. Pavlicek
Thomas Taylor, Jr
Robert
Iles Warren Pease Stillman B. Jamieson
Edmund W. Burke
Eibridge Hancey
Edwin A. Olson
Arba N. Waterman
George K. Schmidt
A. C. Clark
Chauncey Dewey
Zina R. Carter
George F. Harding, Jr
August Wy Miller
Sey Ceeubtican
Joseph F. Haas
President County Board
Ublican
Charles E. Merriam
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Sidney Adler Irwin R. Hazen
Henry Atpatel
Warwick A. Shaw
Q. J. Chott
Robert R. Jampolis
John R. McCabe
Alderman Coughlin
Thomas Dixon
John H. Montgomery
William J. Pringle
Adolph Kurs
James Whitney Hall
John A. Richert
John Budinger
William J. McKenna
John Tananevicz
Charles Martin
Will ©. Moody
John Hoey
David Mulrooney
Charles J. Lucas
William Maypole
Michael Maher
Albert W. Beilfuss
Joseph Grein
Louis Legner
Henry G. Ferncase
William C. Kastan
John Schermann
Frank W. Kovaleski
M. C. Conlon
James F. Bowler
Charles M. Foell
B. F. Clettenberg
P. J. Bullivan
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Lewis Rinaker
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Fred A. Britten
Frank Brandecker
Chester A. Strait
Wm. Pease
John Haderlein
George McHale
William Ehemann
Peter Werdell
Charles M. Thomson
Fred Welland
H. D. Capitain
W. J. Covey
James F. Clancy
Frank Wilson
Charles C. Breyer
W. D. Wilcox
William H. Blencoe
Daniel Herlihy
Charles Twigg
John Golombiewski
Felix W. Janovsky
John Smolka
Frank Brom
John Burns
Joseph Mahoney
Hugh A. Quipn
Charles J. Boyd
Henry Rogers
William J. Roberts
Henry Bergen
Nicholas Gier
James Rea
John Ahearn
Edward A. Eckman
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Herman Temninga
John Carnegie
Eugene Block
Ben Busch
F. J. Imes
Charles Trainor
Jonathan Ruxton
Charles K. Todd
Jerome Zelenka
P. J. Nolan
Charles J. Forsberg
Irwin R. Hazen
Timothy J. Ryan
B. J. Mahony
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