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From 1955 to 1976 Richard J. Daley presided over the strongest urban political machine in America. He and his machine not only dominated Chicago and Cook County government, but also wielded a great deal of influence in state government and presidential politics. His death in late 1976 left a vacuum in Chicago's political and public life and raised a number of significant Who would take over? Would the machine survive? Would the "city that works" continue to work smoothly? With these questions very much in mind, AFTER DALEY analyzes the influence of the Daley legacy on his two successors - Michael Bilandic and Jane Byrne - and charts the degree to which politics in Chicago is being transformed. Its ten chapters discuss such subjects as voting patterns among a variety of constituencies; the special and changing situation of blacks and Latinos; how the bureaucracy and the machine have both helped and hindered one another; capital budgeting and planning; the tremendous growth of the suburbs and the surprising changes in their demographic and political composition; and the controversial administration of Jane Byrne. Politicians, academics, and all those who write or talk about Chicago w

Author

Samuel K Gove, Louis H. Masotti, Samuel Kimball Gove

Publisher

Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252009365

Subjects

Political Science, History, Humanities