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  2. 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 ...

  3. Political history of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The political environment in Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s let organized crime flourish to the point that many Chicago policemen earned more money from pay-offs than from the city. Before the 1930s, the Democratic Party in Chicago was divided along ethnic lines - the Irish, Polish, Italian, and other groups each controlled politics in their ...

  4. Category:Politicians from Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Members of the Chicago Board of Education (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Politicians from Chicago" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,021 total.

  5. Glossary of American politics - Wikipedia

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    Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...

  6. 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 ...

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  8. Realpolitik - Wikipedia

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    Realpolitik (/ r eɪ ˈ ɑː l p ɒ l ɪ ˌ t iː k / ray-AHL-po-lih-teek German: [ʁeˈaːlpoliˌtiːk] ⓘ; from German real 'realistic, practical, actual' and Politik 'politics') is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises.

  9. Political geography - Wikipedia

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    The origins of political geography lie in the origins of human geography itself, and the early practitioners were concerned mainly with the military and political consequences of the relationships between physical geography, state territories, and state power.