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  2. The Chicago Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated as CMOS, TCM, or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago [1]) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press. Its 18 editions (the most recent in 2024) have prescribed writing and citation styles widely used in publishing.

  3. Chicago-style politics - Wikipedia

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    Chicago-style politics" is a phrase which has been used to refer to the city of Chicago, regarding its hard-hitting sometimes corrupt politics. It was used to refer to the Republican machine in the 1920s run by William Hale Thompson , as when Time magazine said, "to Mayor Thompson must go chief credit for creating 20th Century Politics Chicago ...

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Multiple American style guides, including The Chicago Manual of Style (since 2010), now deprecate U.S. and recommend US. For commonality reasons, use US by default when abbreviating, but retain U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established, unless there is a good reason to change it.

  5. Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia

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    While citations should aim to provide the information listed above, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style. A number of citation styles exist, including those described in the Wikipedia articles for Citation, APA style, ASA style, MLA style, The Chicago Manual of ...

  6. Chinaman (politics) - Wikipedia

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    Chinaman is an epithet for political mentors and backers that entered the lexicon in the politics of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., in the 1900s and is still in use today.An example of the use of the term appeared in the January 27, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times: "Before the age of political correctness, Munoz would have been called Torres' chinaman, and in City Hall, that's still what they'd call him, but ...

  7. Pracademic - Wikipedia

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    A pracademic (or practitioner-academic or academic-practitioner) is someone who is both an academic and an active practitioner in their subject area. The term has a history of at least 30 years, but its first coining is unclear. The earliest reference may have been identified by a subscriber to Worldwide Words [1] as being 1973.

  8. Citation - Wikipedia

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    xkcd webcomic titled "Wikipedian Protester". The sign says: "[CITATION NEEDED]".[1]A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of ...

  9. Shakman Decrees - Wikipedia

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    The decrees are compromises, but are considered a victory for Shakman, as political patronage was largely abolished in Chicago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2022, after more than fifty years of litigation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the consent decree as to one of the defendants, the governor of Illinois , citing ...