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Illustrations Following page  “Quit Claim” The Reverend Jeremiah L. Porter William Butler Ogden “The Alderman’s Declaration of Independence” “He Won’t Be Reformed” George E. Cole “Carter H. Harrison Against the Boodlers!” “Harrison and Chicago” Michael “Hinky Dink” Kenna and “Bathhouse John” Coughlin William Hale Thompson and William Dever with their wives Patrick A. Nash and Edward J. Kelly “The Warning” Women marchers from Daley’s ancestral Eleventh Ward The archetypal Chicago ward boss James R. Thompson Artist’s rendering of the Mirage tavern Harold L. Washington Lawrence S. Bloom ix ...

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