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William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as "Big Bill", [1] he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago.
Republican William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, who had previously served as mayor of Chicago for two terms from 1915 to 1923, took advantage of the crime situation under his Democratic Party successor William Emmett Dever (attributed to Dever's strong enforcement of Prohibition causing increased competition among remaining bootleggers), and ran for a third nonconsecutive term, promising to end ...
Thompson would lose to Democrat Anton Cermak in the 1931 Chicago mayoral election [142] as his public approval fell victim to continuing crime and the Great Depression. [143] Historians generally consider Thompson one of the most unethical mayors in American history, in large part due to his alliance with Capone. [144]
The always-bombastic Thompson campaigned for a wide open town, at one time hinting that he'd reopen illegal saloons closed by Dever's police. [3] Such a proclamation helped Thompson's campaign gain the support of mobster Al Capone. Thompson's campaign allegedly accepted a contribution of $250,000 ($4385057 in 2017) from the gangster.
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Many of Thompson's votes came from German and African American voters. [16] Polls showed that Thompson received as much as 78% of the African American vote. [10] By some accounts, Sweitzer received a mere 23% of the African American vote. [21] Nearly half of Thompson's margin of victory alone was amassed in the black Second Ward. [2]
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