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Corrupt Illinois : Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality /
Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace. Corrupt Illinois lays out a bluepr...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Corrupt Illinois : |b Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality / |c Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson ; foreword by Jim Edgar. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Corrupt Illinois -- 2. Machine politics and stolen elections -- 3. The sorry state of Illinois -- 4. Adlermanic corruption -- 5. Chicago city haul -- 6. Crook county -- 7. Suburban scandals -- 8. Police abuse and corruption -- 9. Jailbird judges and crooked courts -- 10. Congressional corruption -- 11. Ending the culture of corruption -- Appendix I. Highlights in Illinois' history of corruption, 1833 to 2014 -- Appendix II. Illinois governors, 1961-2014 -- Appendix III. Chicago mayors, 1955-2014 -- Appendix IV. U.S. Attorneys for the Northern District of Illiniois, 1964-2014. | |
| 520 | |a Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace. Corrupt Illinois lays out a blueprint to transform our politics from a pay-to-play--driven marketplace into what it should be: an instrument of public good | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Political corruption. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01069240 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Patronage, Political. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01055231 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Misconduct in office. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01023635 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Criminology. |2 bisacsh | |
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