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Burke’s Great Work in Chicago Political Shift
Chicago Democrats credit leader Robert Burke for notable gains in a Republican-dominated era. The city cut the 1900 Chicago Republican majority from 60,000 to about 7,000 amid broad GOP gains elsewhere. Burke’s mobilization aided Democratic congressional and county wins, with Cook County supporting Alschuler and Yates while Deneen and Upham gained county offices. The article lauds Burke’s campaign management and notes shifts on the County Board and in various districts, highlighting Democratic control of the Drainage Board and notable local figures in Chicago politics.
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Chicago
Robert BE. Burke
New York
Nebraska
McKinley
Mark Hanna Wis
Congressmien
Burke
Merit
Cook County
Samuel Alschuler
Covernor
Ilinois
Richard Yates
Charles 8. Deneen
Fred W. Upham
County Board of Review
George Berz
J. E B. Traeger
Repubicane
John J. Hanberg
St. B. Organ
Simon
Charles
Cutting
Binyth
Dem
Wenter
Jones
Carter
Braden Cloldt
Baker
Smith
Drainage Board
Pail Boutell
Bryan
Lorimer
Congressmain Boutell
Superior Court
Louis Ball
Kavanagh
Cowen Cee Creeee King
Tolman Young
Thepublicans
Erickson
Jon
Kelly
Sullivan
Larry Kilcourse
County Burney
Herman Ahrens
William G. Herrmann
Edwin K. Walker
Frank J. Palt
Charles EB. Erby
Maurice Rosenfeld
Rollin B. Organ
John I. Tanner
United States
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