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1889 Chicago mayoral election
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1889 , Democrat DeWitt Clinton Cregier defeated incumbent Republican John A. Roche , winning a majority of the vote and a margin of victory in excess of ten percent.
The election was held on April 2.[ 1] [ 2]
Campaign
Cregier backed strongly by trade unions .[ 3] John Peter Altgeld threw his backing behind Cregier's candidacy.[ 3]
Results
Creiger received 76.86% of the Polish-American vote , while Roche received 23.07%.[ 4]
References
^ a b The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1912 . Chicago Daily News, Incorporated. 1911. p. 464. Retrieved 12 May 2020 .
^ Currey, Josiah Seymour (1912). Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth . S. J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 335 .
^ a b Kersten, Andrew E. (2011). Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast . Macmillan. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8090-9486-8 . Retrieved 2 June 2020 .
^ Kantowicz, Edward. “The Emergence of the Polish-Democratic Vote in Chicago.” Polish American Studies, vol. 29, no. 1/2, 1972, pp. 67–80. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20147849.