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The Chicago Democratic Machine was a political machine led by former ChicagoMayorRichard J. Daley. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 - December 20, 1976) was an Irish-American politician who served as Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee from 1953 and Mayor of Chicago from 1955, retaining both positions until his death in 1976. ...
When general prosperity returned in 1940, Chicago had an entrenched Democraticmachine, a fully solvent city government, and a population that, while still heavily segregated racially, had enthusiastically shared mass culture and mass movements.
The Democratic Party was one key beneficiary of the public's new interest in politics and mass reform movements.
Impressed with the dramatic returns furnished by the Chicagomachine, and with the dramatic social unrest caused by mass unemployment, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged agency heads to be generous with New Deal funds in the city.
He served for 21 years as the undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses." He played a major role in the history of the Democratic Party, especially with his support for John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968.
Daley was Chicago's third mayor in a row from the heavily Irish Bridgeport working-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
Known for shrewd party politics, Daley was the prototypical "machine" politician, and his ChicagoDemocraticMachine, based on control of thousands of patronage positions, was instrumental in bringing a narrow 8,000 vote victory in Illinois for John F. Kennedy in 1960.
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