| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The Civil War was followed by a divisive and hotly contested party politics, and by 1865 Chicago was an industrial giant and the undisputed capital of the mid-west. ???Local government from the Chicago Fire in 1871 until the Great Depression in 1929 was characterized by corruption, ???boodle,??? and fragmented power ....The city council was at the center of a corrupt political system in which alde
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