Chicago politics and Iroquois fire blame on Harrison era
A long critique traces how theater fires under Mayor Harrison exposed lax enforcement of building codes. It accuses Harrison allies of stacking election boards with wealthy men, cites corruption around First Ward Ball revenues, and details broader graft, labor unions, and party machinations shaping Chicago politics and aldermanic races.
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Harrison
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Harrison Adinistration
Wells Street
Clark Street
Columbia Theater
Orpheum Theater
City Hall
Washington Street
St. Luke's Sanitarium
21St Street
Wabash Avenue
Lincoln Hotel
Madison Street
The
Chicago Eagle
Building Department
John E. Traeger
Denis J. Swenie
William Masham
Swenie
Goody-Goody Trust Press
Dunne
Busse
First Ward Dive Keepers Union
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Oréere
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First Ward
Harrison Barnacles
Ories
Democratic Workers
West Side
Democratic Organization
Graham
Andrew J. Graham
North Avenue Pony Players Club
Michael Kenna
George F. Harding, Jr
Milton J. Foreman
James M. Dailey
John J. Sheahan
Theodore K. Long
Charles B. Merriam
John R. Hmerson
Dennis J. Egan
Eraventh
Thomas F. Scully
Demerat
Edward F. Cullerton
Michael Zimmer
Arthur W. Fulton
James H. Lawley
Henry Atpatel
Stanley H. Kunz
Lewis D. Sitts
John J. Brennan
John Powers
John P. Stewart
Francis W. Taylor
Jacob A. Hey
August Krumhels
Harry B. Littler
Matthias A. Mueller
Michael McInerney
James A. Kearns
Albert J. Fisher
Charles B. Reading
William F. Ryan
John 8. Clark
Merriam
Chicago Turngemeinde
Pony Players’ Union
Knockers’ Union
Harrison Knockers
Touchers Brigade
Knockers Union
Charter Harrison
the Barnacles’ Union
Democratic Party
Cook County
John McCarthy
William G. Legner
F. W. Blocks
Frank 8. Ryan
Edward J.novak
John McdGillen
Peter Reinberg
Benjamin Rosenthal
Eereenat
Armie
Thomas F. Litty
F. 8. Peabody
McCormick
Thos J. Webb
W. Randolph Street
John W. Eckhart
N. Carpenter Street
John J. McLaughlin
la Salle Street
Benj. Rosenthal
Hotel Metropole
R. C. Sullivan
Michigan Avenue
George E. Brennan
la Salle
N. Paulina Street
E. J. Joyce
Turner Avenue
L. P. Kelly
Baird Avenue
Stephen Malato
Ashland
R. Jandus
Charles Martin Patrick Carr
Wm. L. O'Connell
John P. Gibbons
Edward F. Brennan
L William Dever
Stanley Kielczynski
John Brennan
W. J. Gaynor
Thomas Gallagher
John J. Hayes
George L. McConnell
John F. O'Malley
Jacob H. Hopkins
Thomas Church
James J. Lyons
Frank Brandecker
D. W. Sullivan
John Hynes
Joseph A. Weber
Harry R. Gibbons
William F. Quinlan
Patrick F. Haynes
Matt Evert
Nell Mubile
Fred D. Br
Frank H. McCulloch
James Evanston
William H. Stolte
Heights
J. J. O'Rourke
Harvey
Frank Keogh
Lemont
Ross 0. Hall
Oak Park
Walter A. Lants
la Grange
Louis Richter
Melrose Park
August Koelling
Arlington Heights
Charles Stoffal
Cicero
Antheny Hunt
Winnetka
Barnacles’ Union
John E& Traeger
William Kolacek
West Park Board
William L. O'Connell
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