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Local Government in Metropolitan Chicago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Victor Jones
Victor Jones
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University of Chicago
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A balance sheet of local government in the metropolitan area of Chicago for the last five years would show that, while certain developments are tending to make government in the area more complicated, some progress has been realized toward simplified local government.

It becomes increasingly evident, for one thing, that non-governmental groups are organizing their work on a metropolitan basis. The Chicago City Manager Committee, for instance, is securing much of its support from people who do business in the city but who live in the suburbs. The Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Chicago Area, which was organized in 1935, has about one-third of its members living outside the city and about a tenth living outside the county. Consumers' coöperative stores in Chicago and suburbs are organized into a Chicago Coöperative Federation which issues a monthly “Chicagoland” paper.

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Municipal Affairs
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American Political Science Review , Volume 30 , Issue 5 , October 1936 , pp. 935 - 942
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1936

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References

1 Norman N. Gill, research assistant in political science at the University of Chicago, is now studying personnel in metropolitan Chicago.

2 Merriam, Charles E., Parratt, Spencer D., and Lepawsky, Albert, The Government of the Metropolitan Region of Chicago (Chicago, 1932)Google Scholar.

3 Smith-Hurd, , Illinois Revised Statutes, 1935Google Scholar, chap. 105, sec. 333.

4 People v. Kelly, 357 III. 408 (1934).

5 Smith-Hurd, Ill. Rev. Stats., 1935, chap. 105, secs. 327v6-v7.

6 Chicago Park District, Analysis of Recreation Division Budget, 1935 (7 pages, mimeographed).

7 Chicago Tribune, April 14, 1935.

8 Smith-Hurd, Ill. Rev. Stats., 1935, chap. 105, secs. 333.29–333.37.

9 Kocsis v. Chicago Park District, 362 III. 24; 198 N.E. 847.

10 The total bonded debt represents, however, only about 6.5 per cent of the full value of property in Chicago, “assuming that property is assessed in general at 37 per cent of its full value.” Bulletin No. 138, February, 1936, Chicago Civic Federation and Bureau of Public Efficiency.

11 Smith-Hurd, Ill. Rev. Stats., 1935, chap. 105, sec. 333.1a.

12 Ibid., chap. 111 2/3, secs. 85–90; chap. 32, sec. 157.4. The act was upheld in People v. City of Chicago, 349 III. 304 (1932).

13 Smith-Hurd, Ill. Rev. Stats, 1935, chap. 24, secs., 207a–207g. Ralph Burton, graduate student at the University of Chicago, is now studying transit problems in metropolitan Chicago.

14 These bills are another instance of the common practice of creating ad hoc units to circumvent the constitutional debt limitation.

15 Senate Bill No. 10, 2nd spec. session, law without approval, May 12, 1936.

16 The taxable resources of Oak Park township are approximately three times the relief needs of the township.

17 Mr. David G. Monroe, graduate student at the University of Chicago, is completing his study of police administration in metropolitan Chicago.

18 Mr. John A. Vieg discusses this problem in the study, “The Government of Education in Metropolitan Chicago,” Which he is now completing.

19 Lepawsky, Albert, Home Rule for Metropolitan Chicago (Chicago, 1935)Google Scholar.

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