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Pritzker was born in Palo Alto, California, on January 19, 1965.He is the son of Donald Pritzker and Sue Pritzker (née Sandel). [7] [4] A member of the Pritzker family, a Jewish family of Ukrainian descent [8] prominent in business and philanthropy during the late 20th century, [9] [10] Pritzker is named after both of his paternal uncles, Jay Pritzker and Robert Pritzker, and called "JB" for ...
Richard J. Daley was born in Bridgeport, a working-class neighborhood of Chicago. [3] He was the only child of Michael and Lillian (Dunne) Daley, whose families had both arrived from the Old Parish area, near Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, during the Great Famine. [4]
Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st mayor of Chicago. [1] In April 1983, Washington became the first African American to be elected as the city’s mayor at the age of 60.
Chicago was incorporated as a town in 1833. At that point it was governed by a board of trustees who were elected annually at large and elected a president from among themselves. Chicago's incorporation as a city in 1837 eliminated such a model in favor of a common council elected from wards and a separate office of mayor who was elected at ...
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1871, Joseph Medill Charles C. P. Holden by a landslide 46-point margin. Holden was president of the Common Council, [1] and constructed the Landmark Holden Block in 1872. The election took place on November 7, [2] a month after Chicago suffered the calamity of the Great Chicago Fire. [3]
A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). xiv, 200 pp. Lindberg, Richard Carl. To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal : 1855-1960. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.
Merriam was a land developer [8] who had been elected twice to the Chicago City Council as an independent Democrat, receiving sizable Republican support both times. [2] In order to capture the party's mayoral nomination, Merriam changed his affiliation to Republican. [ 2 ]
The Chicago mayoral election of 1963 was held on April 2, 1963. The election saw Richard J. Daley elected to a third term as mayor, defeating Republican Ben Adamowski by a double-digit margin. The party was preceded by primary elections held on February 26, 1963 [2] to determine the nominees of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party ...