Chapter 8 Urban
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- Judge Turley
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- Wanted to save chicago from council and stop boodle
- Illustrates Progressive era reformers - Progressive Movement
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- 1890-1915
- Changed national and local politics
- Eliminate problems caused by major political transition - Upton Sinclair
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_ Sociallist who came to Chicago
- Wrote THE JUNGLE
- People remember the horrible scenes of chicago filth
- Influenced the Pure Food and Drug Acts - Meat Inspection Act
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- Made to impose health standards on the meatpacking industry
- 1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act
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- Made to hekp improve helath standards
- Became federal laws - William Stead
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- Wrote the book IF JESUS CAME TO CHICAGO
- Book made Chicago look selfish
- Summary of his disgust in Chicago - Joseph Coughlin
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- An alderman known for using boodles (bribing and giving gifts to alderman)
- Eventually re-elected to Municipal Voters' League - Michael Kenna
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- Alderman who joined council
- Member of the First Ward - Carter Harrison II
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the most powerful progessive Era maors who helped civic reform
- Cleaner water, better sewage disposal, fire protection
- Enhanced conditions for working on railroad tracks - Lincoln Steffens
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- Wrote THE SHAME OF CITIES
- Explained how Chicago's politics had no common sense or logic - John Hopkins
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- Mayor before harrison
- Been involved previously in large number of scandals - Charles Yerkes
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- Faught against Harrison over streetcar companies.
- Wanted to ahve a monopoly over all of the companies
- involved with a great deal of scandals - Fred Busse
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- Yerke's successor
- Lazy mayor who was politcally dead - Jane Addams
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- came up with the idea of Hull House (inspired by a trip to London)
- Helped/ housed immigrants - Hull House
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- house in which many immigrants stayed to gain knowledge of American culture
- recreation spots as well as educational areas
- immigrants felt that it was home