Covers Chicago's notorious history of corruption and the countervailing reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. This book presents an account of governmental malfeasances.

This title pinpoints the interplay between corrupt politicos and ardent reformers. ""Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago"" unfolds the city's notorious history of corruption and the countervailing reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of crime in politics, this wide-ranging account of governmental malfeasances traces ongoing public corruption and reform to its nineteenth-century democratic roots.