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Historical and contemporary claims of election fraud in Chicago, including the impact of reforms and investigations.
The Chicago Tribune’s 1972 year‑long investigation documented more than 1,000 specific acts of vote fraud in city elections and prompted federal grand‑jury indictments, convictions and a pledge of fed...
Chicago’s history includes well-documented episodes of electoral corruption — from machine-era tricks and investigative exposés in the 20th century to a major federal probe in the early 1980s that pro...
Chicago’s history of vote fraud is real, well-documented and concentrated in the city’s machine politics era, with pockets of large-scale misconduct exposed in the 1960s–1980s; subsequent investigatio...