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Examines goals to link economic development with employment services, hold accountable firms receiving public incentives, retain manufacturing, and provide equitable access to city resources, as central elements of Washington's campaign.

Although commentators on the mayoral administration of Chicago's Harold Washington have typically described either a progressive-city government or a black machine, a third approach to characterizing Washington's political coalition and administrative program is offered by the black-urban-regime metaphor. By examining the Washington administration as a black urban regime, one can specify how local factors constrained the policymaking of Chicago's first African-American mayor and can identify lessons from the Washington experience applicable to minority municipal administrations in other U.S. cities.

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This article examines the transformation of community development in Chicago in the last three decades from a predominately grassroots movement for social change to a much smaller & fragmented one led by professionalized groups. It focuses on Harold Washington's & Richard M. Daley's mayoral regimes & the ways they helped to shape the context & implementation of community development. The major theme in the article is that this movement lost most of its capacity to be innovative & to contribute to progressivism (most evident under the Washington administration) when it lost its basic connections to grassroots leadership under the subsequent Daley administration. As a consequence, problems like poverty, homelessness, poor schooling, & greater racial & class divisions have resulted. The discussion & analysis is based on interviews of people involved with both regimes & a review of changes in policies & practices between the Washington & current Daley (Daley II) period. The article concludes with a sober overview of how community development has been absconded to serve the interests of progrowth & corporate interests rather than used as a tool to promote fairness, access, & equity in low-income neighborhoods. 10 References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2004 The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

This article examines the transformation of community development in Chicago in the last three decades from a predominately grass roots movement for social change to a much smaller and fragmented one led by professionalized groups. It focuses on Harold Washington's and Richard M. Daley's mayoral regimes and the ways they helped to shape the context and implementation of community development. The major theme in the article is that this movement lost most of its capacity to be innovative and to contribute to progressivism (most evident under the Washington administration) when it lost its basic connections to grass roots leadership under the subsequent Daley administration. As a consequence, problems like poverty, homelessness, poor schooling, and greater racial and class divisions have resulted. The discussion and analysis is based on interviews of people involved with both regimes and a review of changes in policies and practices between the Washington and current Daley (Daley II) period. The article concludes with a sober overview of how community development has been absconded to serve the interests of progrowth and corporate interests rather than used as a tool to promote fairness, access, and equity in low-income neighborhoods.