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Leading up to the establishment of the Chicago Police Department, the first rank of “constable” was created in 1830. Authorization of Chicago’s very own police force occurred on January 31, 1835. On August 15, 1835, the Chicago Police Department was born. The department’s mission reads, “The Chicago Police Department, as part of, and empowered by, the community, is committed to protect the lives, property, and rights of all people, to maintain order, and to enforce the law impartially. We will provide

Morton Grove, a suburb area near the city of Chicago, became the first municipality in the United States to ban handguns in 1981. The village suddenly became the center of gun debate in the United States and the N.R.A “began a campaign in many states to push for legislation that would preempt gun regulations by municipal governments.” (Rubin) The campaign was not successful, at least not in Illinois because in the next year, the city council of Chicago hold hearings on similar handgun bans in the

LIFE IN BRIDGEPORT In 1836, Bridgeport was born out of the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. This alone “guaranteed Bridgeport 's position as an industrial center,” as it encouraged the creation of lumberyards, manufacturing plants, and packing houses (Bridgeport, Encyclopedia of Chicago, 1). Due to the steady access to employment, many immigrants settled and searched for work in the neighborhood. This translated into a growing foreign ‘white’ population as it “stood as a bastion of

the Robert Taylor Homes that can be seen from the Dan Ryan Expressway. (Krieger, The Projects) Chicago’s notorious reputation for crime-ridden, poor quality public housing is a direct result of public policy during the reign of former mayor Richard J. Daley. Instead of using public housing to give lower income families a decent place to live, as was the intent of most public housing at the time, it was used to segregate blacks by concentrating them into certain parts of the city. Cabrini-Green was

Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 12, Number 2—Spring 1998—Pages 139-160 Are Cities Dying? Edward L. Glaeser Is the city dying? Professional seers, such as Richard Naisbitt and Alvin Toffler, have argued that information technology is rapidly making the need for faceto- face contact juid cities obsolete. Experts on the inner city see inevitable urban decay when they note that 16.7 percent of families in cities with greater than one million inhabitants live below the poverty line (compsired

explanation of the principle of Maglev. fig. 1.1 1.1.1 Magnetic Levitation The "8" figured levitation coils are installed on the sidewalls of the guideway. When the on-board superconducting magnets pass at a high speed about several centimeters below the center of these coils, an electric current is induced within the coils, which then act as

ASSIGNMENT ON LEADERSHIP Lecturer: Dr. Brian O’Reilly Title: Compare and Contrast Two Leaders Executive Summary This paper would take leadership into account by comparing and contrasting two well-known leaders in General Electric (GE). The paper first introduces two leaders with some brief biographies, characteristics and their contribution to the GE. It then looks at who would be the more effective leader by providing with some aspects of leadership. It then comes up with some skills these

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