The new Chicago way : lessons from other big cities / Ed Bachrach and Austin Berg.

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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 ChicagoChapter 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 RuinChicago'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; Alternative Pension Solutions; Apocalypse Now

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

What about Other Cities?New York; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Houston; A Note on Dallas; Settlements; Chicago's Governance Structure and Public Safety; Chapter 9. Creations of the State; The Legal Foundation for City Law; City Charters; Two Choices for Illinois and Chicago; Entities Not Subject to Home Rule; Political Obstacles; The Possibility of Change; Chapter 10. The Audacity of Hope?; About This Book Again; About Chicago; About Government; About Change; The Audacity of Hope; Appendixes; A. Proposed Governance Changes, Policies, and Actions

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