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Chicago

Uploaded by purple_nurple on Apr 25, 2007

Chicago became a city in 1837, populated with steel mills, factories and shipping businesses. It was full of European families; young men came from Germany and Ireland to work. Chicago was the center city of the United States. It has faced many problems through nearly 170 years of existence. Seven major blunders including political mistakes, architectural misjudgments and sports goofs have plagued Chicago’s history.
In Chicago’s history, there have been many political screw-ups. The incorrect headline of the Dewey/Truman race was a huge Tribune blunder. On November 3rd, 1948, the Tribune released its daily newspaper with the headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”. The title was the work of the newspapers editor, who was faced with a deadline and decision. On the same night of the morning blunder, 150,000 copies of a new newspaper hit streets, reading “DEMOCRATS MAKE SWEEP OF STATE OFFICE”. Now a day those original copies go for nine hundred dollars a piece (Leroux, “7 Blunders”). An additional blunder took place during another race for office, only it involved snow. In 1978, Mayor Michael Bilandic made a horrible choice. The weather was nasty; nine inches of snow were already on the ground and an additional twenty made it nearly thirty. Bilandic told all Chicagoans to move their cars to the open school lots and that all cars parked on the streets would be towed. The problem was that the roads were too thick to get through and no one could move anywhere. He left the fate of Chicago in the hands of its people, hoping that they would be able to find a solution. Meanwhile, candidate Jane Byrne was taking pictures of Bilandic doing nothing. She hoped to use those pictures to persuade the voters, leading her to a place in office. She succeeded and beat Bilandic in the election on February 27, 1979. That defeat ended the rule of what was known as the all powerful “Democratic Machine” (Leroux, “‘Bilandic-ed’”). The blunder of closing State Street is that of a lesser known one. The State St. shut down caused sale prices and popularity to plummet. In 1976, Chicago had banned traffic on State St., the main street of Chicago, only allowing buses to pass through. The purpose of closing State was so that it would become an outdoor mall. It had plenty of stores and people from all over pouring in, but once it was closed, the initial plan...

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Uploaded by:   purple_nurple

Date:   04/25/2007

Category:   History

Length:   5 pages (1,235 words)

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