Settlement graft and public schools debate across Chicago
A scathing editorial attacks public schools for Asians and settlement workers, linking tax dodging rich in Chicago to control of schools and city policy. It cites McCormick, Marshall Field, Sears Roebuck, and other firms, condemns graft, tariffed assessors, and calls for reform amid a broader critique of urban corruption.
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New York
California
Chicago
Globe
Dante
Hell
Stanley McCormick
Doc. Favill
The
Cy Bentley
Marshall Field & Co
Montgomery Ward & Co
Monty
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Foreman Brothers
American Trust & Sav
NBS
State Bank of Chicago
Harris Trust & Savings Bank
Greenebaum Sons
First State
International Harvester Co
Uncle Sam
Chicago death roll linked to motorists spurring fender ordinance
An early 1900s Chicago piece declares motorists and “Yellow Peril” owners caused dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries in two months, cites Alderman Nolan urging fender requirements, lists casualty records by streetcar incidents, and critiques city politics and police outcomes amid a flood of public works motions and council actions.
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Carter H. Harrison
Pall Bearers Union
Troquois
California
John Powera
John Brennan
United Societies
Patrick J. Nolan
Francis A. Eastman
Yellow Peril
Clancy
Fullerton Avenue
Milwaukee
Fortieth Avenues
Twenty-third Ward
Calumet & Eastern Railroad Company
Hegewisch
Riverdale
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Tweed
Asia
Theii Books
Mandel Brothers
Hillmang v
the Hub
Boston
Louis Weber & Co
Clark and van Buren
Chas, A. Stevens & Bros
Tribune Company
Dearborn Street
Chicago Daily News
6Th Avenue
Carson, Pirle, Scott & Co
Rothachilds
South Side
Maurice Rosenfeld
van Viissingen
Armour & Co
Atlantic
United States
St. Louis
East St. Louis
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
A. D. Melvin
Bureau of ‘Animal Industry
J. F. Harms
Harms
Harmis
Associated Press
Ill
Julius Bischoff
Blechoff
State Street
Eddie Hillman
Iroquois Club
Mack
Prohibition
Winden
Baker
Honore
Kersten
Walker
Edward F. Dunne
Samuel J. Tilden
A. J. Sabath
South West
Seers
Fairbanks Canning Company
Swift @Co
Rush Street
Virginia McCormick
Potter Palmer
Take Shore Drive
Jease Spalding
Astor Street
Mra. Emmons Blaine
Erle Street
George G. Swift
Edward O. Lee
Jackson Boulevard
John Lewis
Fortieth Street
Wentworth Avenue
Hugh Macd. Scott
State
van Buren
John Cormack
Charles Johnson
van Buren Street
Wabash Avenue
Nick Ponlys
Thirty-fourth
A. J. Hainline
Washington Streets
J. J. Wilbur
Polk Street
Marcle Ohl
Twenty- Fourth Street
Cottage Grove Avenue
Agatha Reinhold
Twenty-fourth Street
C. C. Donnell
Jackson and Dearborn
P. Viller
John Dunleavy
Root Street
Emerald Avenue
J. B. Raymond
South Water
Clark
James Lyall
Fifty First
Halsted
Frank Forlan
Clark and
Madison Streets
J. Pearson
Forty Third Street
Calumet Avenue
John Farrell
Randolph
Ames Williamson
Ven Buren
A. P. Grannow
Nineteenth
Mary Lloyd
Harrison
Peter Welsh
Clybourn
Osgood Street
A. H. Sumner
Adams
John Davis
Forty Sixth
Louth Richmond
Jackson Streets
James Taylor
Congress
John Brown
Desplaines
Michael Figon
Harry Kelly
Mose Linthard
Randolph Street
Fifth Avenue
William McCalmon
Twelfth
State Streets
Peter van Housen
Harrison Street
Chicago Railways Company
Rush
Dearborn
James Rea
Snow
Busse