City must enforce overcrowding rules to curb slum lairds
A Chicago housing critique argues that even with a 4920 Blackstone injunction the building will house only six families. The piece urges tougher code enforcement, relocation planning, and area by area occupancy steps to curb slumlord practices and halt urban rot in Hyde Park Kenwood.
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Blackstone
Chicago
Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council
Daley
Julian Levi
Hyde Park- Kenwood
Mock political convention at Ray School draws attention
Readers learn of a June 17 mock political convention at Ray School in Chicago. Howard Shapiro chaired the event beginning at 1 45 pm with color presentation and school choir, as Alderman Leon Despres later arrived to greet attendees and banners.
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Herald
Ray School
Kimbark
Howard Shapiro
Ald
Leon Despres
Helen Hutchens
Drexel
Stuart Symington
Peter Johnson
John F. Kennedy
William Schloss
Blackstone
Nelson Rockefeller
United States
Ald. Despres
Language Lapses Stir Upset Over University Speech
The piece laments widespread misuse of grammar and the rise of like as a conjunction among graduates and professors. It cites a Chicago law school panel as an example, arguing poor syntax spreads from universities to society and impedes clear thinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
China
Pollak
Bergen Evans
Balzac
University of Chicago Law School
C. Herman Pritchett
Drexel
University of Chicago
Dr. McKeon
Piperizing Chicago Police Graft Then and Now
A historical profile traces 1911 police graft in Chicago under Mayor Carter Harrison and the use of undercover “snoopers” by Colonel Piper. It contrasts past reforms with modern enforcement, recounting how Piper’s methods sparked the term Piperizing and led to major department reorganization.
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Carter H. Harrison
Harrison
Piper
Underworld
Civil Service Commission
Wilson
Uniformed Force
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Robert Pollak
M.A
John W. Dienhart
Orlando Wilson
Dienhart
William Weinstein
Michael
Hinky Dink
Kenna
Vice
Bill
Terrier
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