Real Estate Board to blame for Chicago boom bust says critic
A scathing broadside argues the Chicago Real Estate Board caused a real estate market crash by pushing an expensive garbage can ordinance and reformer schemes. It claims elevated costs and enforcement burdens on owners, plus health and nuisance risks from new cans, and urges resignations and reform. The piece cites council, aldermen, and local political factions in a broader attack on city governance.
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Chicago
Chicago Real Estate Board
Chicago City Council
Ike
Noah
Traction Franchises Face Open Bids and Reform Demands
City debates Union Traction Company overhaul as North and West Side lines seek competition. Officials consider reopening franchises, hearing George K. Harding’s million dollar bid, and introducing an ordinance for municipal purchase when feasible. Also notes staff meetings and prominent local political figures.
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Union Traction Company
Traction Company
George K. Harding
Harding
Goldaler
Twentieth Century Club
Oak Street
Citizens’ Electric Street Railway Company
Pred KE. Eldred
Eldred
Max Wolff Seen as Leading G.O.P. Candidate for County Clerk
Max Wolff, the popular Justice of the Peace, is talked of as the leading Republican contender to succeed Bill Knopf as County Clerk next year.
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M. J. Doherty
Michael J. Quinn
Hyde Park
Chicago
Quinn
Criminal Court
Max Wolff
Bill Knopf
Drainage Canal costing millions raises water safety concerns
The Drainage Canal has already cost about forty millions of dollars and was intended to purify Chicago's drinking water. A Health Department bulletin issued Wednesday warns that all city water is suspicious and not entirely safe to drink.
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Chicago
Health Department
School Board Clerk Exam Fallout and Drainage Payroll Jab
Citizens recall Billy Legner and Louis Legner in school board clerk exam controversy. Louis Griffin and George Brennan were among those pressured to take the test but were blocked. Legner then withdrew at the last moment, leaving others sidelined. The piece hints drainage payrolls will favor relatives of the Sanitary Trustees and portrays the drainage canal as a private affair.
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Billy
Legner
Louis
Steve Griffin
George Brennan
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Aleck Jones Cadets
Hopkins Smilers
Altgeld Tourists
Can, Man's Union
Carter H. Harrison
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Harrison
Chas, Verne
John Minnegen
W. ¥. Brennan
Honore Palmer
James T. Roach
W. H. Ehemann
Jos. P. Mahoney
Henry F. Donovan
Jon T. Keating
P. McHugh
Une
Illnois
George P. Foster
Daniel J. McMahon
Democracy Wiil
Donald L. Morrill
Wm. P. Black
Wm. Prentius
Major E. B. Tolman
Chis “Igo
George Mills Rogers
Chester D. Crandall
Lincoln Park
Garbage Can Trust
Real Estate Board
Linccoln Park
Miles J. Devine
West Side
Edward A. Dicker
Jno. K. Prindiville, I. P
Hon
Robert
Hes
Joseph P. Junk
A. J. Graham
Commissioner of Public Works
L. C. Goddard
Charles I. Aldrich
United States
Mason
W. C. la Monte
la Monte
Win. F. Wiemers
Tudge
Mr. Wiemers
Building and Loan Association
John Gerts
West
Gerts
Aleck Jones
Billy Legner
Democratic Party
Bee
Wm. T. Hall
Ilo
Maryland Casualty Company
Allan
Durborow
United States Circuit Court
Western Electric Company
Marshal Swenie
M. A. la Bay
John R. Roney
Eisfeldt
John J. Hanberg
Illinois Republic
Ilinois
Conrad
Forestry Department
Peter Schuttler Wagon Works
Benedict Arnold
Billy Leguer
Arnold
Jones
Leguer
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