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The New Chicago Way: Lessons from Other Big Cities

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Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: The Field -- Introduction: The Cost of One-Man Rule -- The City and Its Problems -- What This Book Is About -- The Chicago Way -- Chapter 1. Cutting the Mayor Down to Size -- A Bad Deal -- A Pattern, Not an Isolated Incident -- How the City Works: Strong Mayor, Weak City Council -- The Alderman and the Ward -- Too Many Aldermen -- Filling Vacancies -- Redistricting -- Hollow Committees and Committee Chairs -- Other Elected Offices -- What about Other Cities? -- New York -- Los Angeles -- Solving Problems: A Better Governance Structure for Chicago -- Chapter 2: Discouraging Democracy -- Chicago Municipal Elections -- Other Major Cities -- The Literature on Turnout -- Partisan Elections -- Encouraging Democracy in Chicago -- Chapter 3. Governing the Schools and the City -- Chicago's School Problems -- The Immediacy and Imperative of Fiscal Improvement -- Other Cities and the Largest School Districts -- Scholarship on Mayoral Control of Public Schools -- What Should Chicago Do? -- Disruption -- Disaggregation -- The Urban School System of the Future -- A Homework Assignment for Chicago Public Schools -- Chapter 4. Chicago's Fiscal Ruin -- Chicago's Fiscal Problems: Seen and Unseen -- How City Finance Is Supposed to Work -- How Chicago Has Worked -- How Other Cities Work -- Institutional Safeguards -- Additional Measures -- The Problem of Legacy Costs -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Pension Apocalypse Now, Not Later -- The Holiday Habit -- A Chicago Pension Snapshot -- How Are These Pensions Supposed to Work? -- How Have Pensions Worked in Chicago? -- The Unfairness of Pension Debt -- Solving the Pension Problem: Pain, Suffering, and Riddance -- Freezing and Discontinuing the Plans

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The new Chicago way: lessons from other big cities

Bachrach, Ed; Berg, Austin

Chapter 6. Overdue Oversight and the Reality of CorruptionCorruption Capital?; How Chicago Government Polices Itself; What Other Cities Do; New York City; Los Angeles; Houston; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Recommendations; Chapter 7. Public Support for Private Enterprise at the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority; The Black Box by the Lake; The Anatomy of the MPEA; McCormick Place; Navy Pier; Hotels; The Arena; The Mayor's Road; What Do Other Cities Do?; Orlando; Las Vegas; Atlanta; Commonality; What to Do; Chapter 8. Policing in Chicago; Crime, Public Safety, and Policing in Chicago

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