Dick Simpson (politician)

Dick Simpson
Simpson in 2019
Chicago Alderman from the 44th Ward
In office
1971–1979
Preceded byWilliam Singer
Succeeded byBruce Young
Personal details
Born1940 (age 84–85)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Indiana University (PhD)
ProfessionProfessor, author, politician, activist, political consultant, filmmaker

Dick Weldon Simpson (born 1940) is an American professor, author, politician, activist, political consultant, and filmmaker who formerly served as a Chicago alderman from 1971 through 1979.

Simpson is considered to be a progressive.[1][2] An independent associated with the lakefront liberals during his time on the Chicago City Council, he ran in 1992 and 1994, unsuccessfully, as a challenger to incumbent Democrat Dan Rostenkowski in that party's primary for Illinois's 5th congressional district.

From 1967 until 2022, Simpson was a professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 2006 until 2012, he served as the head of the university's political science department. Simpson has also worked on political campaigns and as a government advisor. He has written an extensive amount of published material on the subject of government and politics.

Early life

Simpson was born in 1940 in Houston, Texas,[3] and grew up as the only child in a middle class household. "Dick" is his full first name (as opposed to "Dick" being a nickname for the first name "Richard", as it more commonly is).[3]

Participating in the civil rights movement, Simpson took part in a 1960 stand-in protest.[4] He graduated from the University of Texas in 1963.[3] He received his PhD from Indiana University.[5] He spent some time in Sierra Leone completing research for his doctoral dissertation.[3] While living in Africa, he wrote to his adviser specifically requesting for him to find him a job in a large city with racial conflict, as he desired to be part of the progressive political transformation of a city.[3]

Early career

Simpson began teaching as a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1967.[6][3]

During the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, he first became Eugene McCarthy's campaign manager for Illinois's 9th congressional district, then was promoted to his statewide Illinois campaign manager, a role he held up through the 1968 Democratic National Convention.[3][7] Simpson participated in protests held during the convention.[4]

In 1969, Simpson managed the successful 44th Ward aldermanic campaign of William Singer, a reform-minded independent liberal.[8][9] Singer, a 29-year old political newcomer, won an upset victory over a candidate supported by the city's Democratic political machine.[10][11] Singer's victory was by a very narrow 427 votes in the runoff election against an opponent backed by the Democratic Party organization.[10][12] Singer's election was seen as ushering in an era of prominence for the city's lakefront liberal voting bloc.[13]

Simpson was a cofounder of the Independent Precinct Organization, which he also served as executive director of.[3][14][6][15]

Aldermanic career

Simpson served two terms as a Chicago alderman for the 44th Ward, from 1971 through 1979.[16][17][18]

Election campaigns

Simpson was first elected in 1971 in an open race. Incumbent 44th ward alderman William Singer was redistricted into the 43rd ward.[7][19][20][21] In the redistricting that took place before the 1971 election, the 44th ward was redrawn to include less of the heavily Jewish and politically independent lakefront, and to include more of the heavily Democratic areas to the west, making it a harder district for Simpson to win as an independent than it had been for Singer to win as an independent.[22] Nevertheless, Simpson defeated the city's Democratic machine to win election to the 44th Ward seat, defeating James B. Kargman. Kragman had the support of the city's Democratic Party organization, as well as the endorsements of some prominent Democratic politicians, such as Adlai Stevenson III and Sidney R. Yates.[7][22][23] Kargman was the son of a politically-connected Cook County Circuit Court judge.[24] Simpson was supported by lakefront liberal voters.[25] He ran on a platform that advocated for community control of municipal programs such as urban renewal. Community groups of the 44th ward were in the midst of a dispute with the city over urban renewal at the time of the election.[22] The third candidate originally on the ballot in the 1971 race, Laura C. Keith, withdrew weeks before the election and endorsed Simpson.[22]

Simpson was reelected alderman in 1975, again defeating an opponent supported by the city's Democratic Party organization, Edward Marsalek.[3][26] Weeks ahead of the election, a third candidate, Wesley Pucinski (the brother of then-41st ward alderman Roman Pucinski) withdrew from the race and endorsed Marsalek.[27] The Committee for an Effective City Council, a group founded to support the election of "independent" candidates to the Chicago City Council, endorsed him and twelve other aldermanic candidates (including fellow incumbents William Cousins, Anna Langford, and John Hoellen) on the same day that Pucinksi withdrew.[27]

Tenure

As an alderman, Simpson remained a political independent.[28] He was among a handful of liberal alderman on the Chicago City Council.[7] He was an advocate of political reform.[29] He was supported by the lakefront liberals.[25] Throughout his tenure, Simpson remained a professor in political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[30]

During his time on the City Council, Simpson was a critic of Richard J. Daley.[28] After he was elected alderman in February 1971, alderman-elect Simpson endorsed Daley's Republican-nominated opponent Richard Friedman in the 1971 Chicago mayoral election (for which the general election was held in April).[31] Despite being nominated by the Republican Party, Friedman was politically an political-reform minded independent Democrat with roots in the Better Government Association,[32][8][33] and was similarly endorsed by Jesse Jackson.[32] Daley and Simpson first directly butted heads early into Simpson's tenure as an alderman, when, on July 27, 1971, he questioned Daley's proposed appointment of Thomas Keane Jr, son of Daley's City Council floor leader, alderman Thomas E. Keane, to the city's Zoning Board of Appeals.[14] He questioned the conflict of appointing Keane Jr., vice-president of Arthur Rubloff & Co., one of the city's largest real estate firms.[14][30] There were other instances where heated arguments erupted between Simpson and Daley.[34][3] In once instance, Simpson angered Daley so severely that Daley attempted to have the City Council's sergeant at arms force Simpson back into his seat.[35]

Simpson became the leader of the minority bloc of independents on the Chicago City Council. As such, he came into conflict with Michael Bilandic, first during Bilandic's stint as Daley's floor leader on the City Council, and later when Bilandic took office as mayor after Daley's death in office.[30] Simpson and fellow independent alderman Martin J. Oberman were the only two aldermen to vote against the resolution appointing Bilandic to hold the mayoralty on an (initially) interim basis after Daley's death.[36][37] Like with Daley, he frequently stood in strong opposition to Bilandic during Bilandic's mayoralty.[15]

Being in the minority opposition to mayors Daley and Bilandic, Simpson's proposed legislation were usually defeated.[15] In some instances, the ideas he proposed in legislation were taken by alderman who were aligned with the majority supporting Daley, who then proposed the same ideas in pieces of legislation without Simpson's name attached.[15] One of the few pieces of legislation Simpson managed to pass as an alderman was an ordinance which would prevent banks and insurance companies that do business with the city from practicing redlining.[3][30][38] The resolution, which Simpson had feared would have little chance of passing, was passed on June 26, 1974, in a unanimous 44–0 vote after it was amended by Daley-aligned alderman Paul Wigoda.[38] Another piece of legislation that Simpson saw passed was a November 1977 resolution calling for an investigation into figures utilized the previous summer to justify an 11.7% fare increase to the city's taxis. This came after former city commissioner Jane Byrne alleged a city hall "conspiracy" to raise the rates of taxis. The resolution creating this investigation, proposed by Simpson and fellow independent aldermen Ross Lathrop and Martin J. Oberman, was passed unanimously by the council.[39] The investigation was later ended by a Chicago City Council vote of 40–3 in April 1978 to accept the investigative committee's majority report over the minority report written by Simpson, Lathrop, and Oberman as investigative committee members.[40] While few wholesale pieces of legislation authored by Simpson were passed, Simpson saw occasional success in making amendments to legislation.[30]

Early into his tenure, Simpson and his staff ran an investigation into the practices of the controversial Lincoln Towing Service, which had been a campaign issue during the 1971 aldermanic election. Folk Singer Steve Goodman visited Simpson's office to review documents from this investigation as reference material while writing "Lincoln Park Pirates", a song about the towing company's practices.[41] The council debated taking action against the towing company.[42]

In March 1977, Simpson and fellow aldermen Dennis H. Block, Ross Lathrop, Martin Oberman proposed a piece of legislation that would have established community zoning boards in each of the 50 wards of the city.[43]

Simpson established a "ward assembly" for the 44th Ward.[44][14] This was a form of direct democracy within the ward, which was dismantled after the Democratic machine later regained control of the 44th Ward seat.[14] It was one of Simpson's 1971 campaign promises that he would establish such an assembly if elected alderman.[22] Similarly, some other independent candidates that year had made similar campaign pledges.[3]

In 1978, Milton Rakove, a professor of political science at University of Illinois at Chicago, characterized Simpson's approach to being an alderman as, "an academic idealist at loose in the arena of politics, who cannot and will not make the compromises a true politician must make."[45] Decades after Simpson left the council, journalist and news editor Bruce Dold remarked,

It wasn’t that he and other independents could pull off legislative victories. It was that, fortunately, there was a small band of thoughtful people who thrived on standing up to power. They provided what little check there was on the authority of Richard J. Daley. Dick Simpson, Abner Mikva, Bill Singer, Marty Oberman, they were pretty fearless.[46]

Retirement from the City Council

Simpson opted against seeking reelection in 1979.[44][47] He endorsed independent candidate Bruce Young, the director of the Jane Addams Center at Hull House, to succeed him.[44][21] Young pledged, as a candidate, to support existing legislation and ordinances that Simpson had proposed on issues such as redlining, the creation of a code hearing bureau, starting an independent audit of the city's finances, and the establishment of a commission on governmental integrity.[21] Young's opponent was John McCaffrey, who had the backing of the city's Democratic Party.[21] Young won election but resigned soon after taking office, citing "personal reasons".[18][44]

Post-aldermanic career

Following his retirement from the Chicago City Council, Simpson has continued to remain involved in Chicago's political discourse. Bruce Dold has remarked that Simpson, "has remained a trusted [political] critic for decades." Among his activities, he has worked as a political consultant, written about politics, run for United States Congress, and taught politics as an educator.[46] In 2015, Ben Joravsky of the Chicago Reader observed that Simpson has remained a political outsider and continues to assail corruption in Chicago's politics.[35]

Professor and political scientist

Until retiring in 2022,[46] Simpson continued to teach as a professor at UIC.[6][16] From 2006 until 2012, Simpson was head of the political science department.[48] He was also a Great Cities Scholar and a Humanities Institute Fellow at UIC[6] and served as director of the university's Preparing Future Faculty Program. In his professorial career, he formerly served as and executive board member of the Illinois Political Science Association,[46] serving for some time as its president.[49] He also worked as co-editor of the Illinois Political Science Review.[49] Simpson participated in annual studies conducted by UIC to measure how independently alderman are voting from the mayor.[50] He was also involved in authoring studies by UIC that ranked cities and states in the United States by their level of corruption.[51] In 2022, Simpson retired as a professor and was named a professor emeritus.[52]

Simpson has also been a respected political analyst.[53] He was, for three years, a monthly op-ed columnist for the Chicago Journal, and was subsequently a monthly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.[6] Simpson has also been a filmmaker.[54]

Politics

In 1979, Simpson served as an advisor on the mayoral transition team of Jane Byrne.[6][30][15] He also served on the mayoral transition team of Harold Washington in 1983.[6] Simpson was involved in a number of political campaigns in the 1980s, such as the campaign of Ron Sable for Simpson's former 44th Ward aldermanic seat.[3] He also ran the organization I CARE (Independent Coalition Against Reagan Economics), which opposed the economic policies of President Ronald Reagan.[55] Simpson endorsed Timothy C. Evans in the 1989 Chicago mayoral special election,[17] and was involved in Woody Bowman's campaign for Illinois Comptroller in 1990.[3][56] He also worked on both the unsuccessful 1990 Democratic primary election campaign of Ray Smith for Cook County State's Attorney, and the successful general election campaign of Republican nominee Jack O'Malley in the same race.[3] After the 1990 elections, Simpson served on David Orr's transition team for Cook County Clerk as well as Jack O'Malley's transition team for Cook County State's Attorney in 1990.[6]

Simpson was twice an unsuccessful candidate for United States congress.[1] Simpson first ran against Dan Rostenkowski in the Democratic primary for the redrawn 5th congressional district in 1992.[7] Posing the greatest reelection challenge Rostenkowski had faced, Simpson won approximately 43% of the vote against Rostenkowski.[57][58][59] Rostenkowski, chairman of United States House Committee on Ways and Means, was considered among the nation's most powerful congressmen.[7] Simpson ran on a platform of congressional reform, including support for term limits.[3] His campaign platform also focused on women's rights, universal health care, economic recovery, and senior citizens issues.[6] Simpson also pledged to recreate a version of his 44th ward assembly in the congressional district.[3] During the campaign, he aggressively criticized Rostenkowski.[58] In February 1993, Simpson announced that he would file a formal complaint against Rostenkowski with the Federal Election Commission and the House Ethics Committee urging them to investigate $37,750 in spending by Rostenkowski's American Leaders Fund, alleging Rostenkowski had illegally used funds from this group to aid his reelection campaign.[60]

Simpson again challenged Rostenkowski for the Democratic nomination in 1994. At the time, Rostenkowski was under grand jury investigation, and was also being challenged for the nomination by John Cullerton.[61] Simpson and Cullerton were joined in challenging Rostenkowski by former alderman Michael Wojik and LaRouche movement member John McCarthy.[62] In 1994, Simpson criticized Rostenkowski as corrupt and criticized him for votes such as his vote in support of extending the Hyde Amendment.[61][63] Simpson placed third behind Rostenkowski and Cullerton.[59] Simpson ran on many of the same issues in 1994 that he had in 1992.[6]

For the 2000 Illinois Democratic Party presidential primary, Simpson was a candidate to be an alternate delegate for Bill Bradley's campaign contingent on Bradley's performance in the state's presidential primary.[6] Simpson served on Lisa Madigan's transition team for Illinois Attorney General in 2003.[6] In the 2004 United States presidential election, he served first as a member of the Issues Committee of Carol Moseley Braun's campaign, and subsequently as a surrogate for the John Kerry campaign.[6]

After Langdon Neale retired from the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, Simpson applied in December 2015 to fill the seat.[29][64] His candidacy for the position was endorsed by Danny K. Davis, Mike Quigley, Joe Moore, and David Orr.[17] He was one of seven finalists for the position.[17] Judge Timothy C. Evans, who was in charge of appointing Neale's replacement, ultimately chose to instead appoint Jonathan T. Swain.[65]

Simpson supported Chuy García's candidacy in the 2015 Chicago mayoral election.[46] Simpson was considered the earliest significant figure to support the campaign Lori Lightfoot in the 2019 Chicago mayoral election.[66] He formally did so on August 21, 2018.[67] He helped then-candidate Lightfoot in writing a proposal for council reform that included putting an end to the practice of aldermanic prerogative and banning outside employment of aldermen.[66] For a long while, Simpson was considered the most prominent individual to have endorsed Lightfoot, still being considered such as late as mid-January 2019[68] (just over one month a week before Lightfoot would place first the first round of the election).[69] Lightfoot would go on to be elected mayor.[66] After Lightfoot became mayor, Simpson worked to advise her on ethics reform.[28] Simpson voiced his support for Lightfoot's unsuccessful 2023 reelection campaign.[70]

In 2021, Simpson participated in an effort run by a coalition of civic groups which formed an independent citizens commission that would draw a city council ward redistricting map, producing an alternative proposal to the ward map that would be drawn-up by members of the Chicago City Council itself as part of the council's decennial redistricting. Simpson was a member of the selection commission that chose the citizens to participate in the effort.[71]

Electoral history

Aldermanic

1971 Chicago 44th Ward aldermanic election[72]
Candidate Votes %
Dick Simpson (incumbent) 8,509 54.27
James B. Kargman 7,171 45.73
Total votes 15,680 100
1975 Chicago 44th Ward aldermanic election[26]
Candidate Votes %
Dick Simpson (incumbent) 8,876 52.78
Edward Marsalek 7,941 47.22
Total votes 16,817 100

Congressional

1992 Illinois's 5th congressional district Democratic primary[73]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Dan Rostenkowski (redistricted incumbent) 56,059 57.19
Democratic Dick Simpson 41,956 42.80
Total votes 98,015 100
1994 Illinois's 5th congressional district Democratic primary[74]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Dan Rostenkowski (incumbent) 46,683 50.06
Democratic John Cullerton 28,306 30.35
Democratic Dick Simpson 12,819 13.74
Democratic Michael A. Wojcik 3,888 4.16
Democratic John F. McCarthy 1,550 1.66
Total votes 93,246 100

Bibliography

Books authored

Simpson has been an author or co-author of more than twenty books.[49] These include:

Title Year published Other authors Publisher Cite
Who Rules?: Introduction to the Study of Politics 1971 — Penn State University Press [75]
Winning Elections: A Handbook in Participatory Politics 1972 — Swallow Press [76][77]
Strategies for Change: How to Make the American political Dream Work 1975 George Beam Swallow Press [78]
Neighborhood Government in Chicago's 44th Ward 1979 Rick Kohenen and Judy Stevens Stipes Publishing Co. [79]
Political Action: Key To Understanding Politics 1984 George Beam Swallow Press [80]
The Politics of Compassion and Transformation 1988 — Swallow Press [81]
Chicago's Future in a Time of Change 1988 — Stipes Publishing Co. [82]
The Crazy Quilt of Government: Units of Government in Cook County 1994 Linda Moll University of Illinois Press [49]
Rogues, Rebels, And Rubber Stamps: The Politics of the Chicago City Council from 1863 to the Present 2001 — Westview Press [83]
Inside Urban Politics: Voices from America's Cities and Suburbs 2003 — Pearson/Longman [84]
The Struggle for Power and Influence in Cities and States 2011 James Dunlap Nowlan, Betty O'Shaughnessy Longman [85]
The city, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York 2011 Dennis R. Judd University of Minnesota Press [86]
Twenty-First Century Chicago 2012 — Cognella Academic Publishing [87]
African Democracy and Development: Challenges for Post-conflict African Nations 2013 James Dunlap Nowlan, Betty O'Shaughnessy Longman [85]
Local Politics and Mayoral Elections in 21st Century America: The Keys to City Hall 2014 Sean D. Foreman, Marcia L. Godwin, Melissa Marschall, Carlos E. Cuéllar, Joseph P. Caiazzo, Melissa Mourtistsen, Betty O'Shaughnessy, William J. Miller, Robert J. Mahu, Lyke Thompson, Fernando J. Guerra, Brianne Gilbert, Larry D. Terry II, Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, Nazita Lajevardi, Scott A. Mackenzie, P. Frances Gouzien, David C. Kimball Routledge [88]
Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality 2015 Thomas J. Gradel University of Illinois Press [89]
Chicago is Not Broke: Funding the City We Deserve 2016 Thomas Gradel, Jackson Potter, Jamie Kalven, Ron Baiman, Hilary Denk, Amara Enyia, Jonathan Peck Tom Tresser and CivicLab (Chicago) [90]
Winning Elections in the 21st Century 2016 Betty O’Shaughnessy University Press of Kansas [91]
Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines 2017 Elizabeth A. Bennion, Elizabeth C. Matto, Alison McCartney American Political Science Association [92][93]
The Good Fight: Life Lessons from a Chicago Progressive 2017 — Golden Alley Press [49][94]
Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago 2022 — University of Illinois Press [95]
Chicago’s Modern Mayors: From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot 2024 co-edited by Betty O'Shaughnessy University of Illinois Press [96]

Articles

Simpson has published hundreds of journal articles, magazine articles, opinion pieces, book chapters, and book reviews.[2][47][97] Simpson was, for three years, a monthly op-ed columnist for the Chicago Journal, and was subsequently a monthly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.[6] He also formerly was co-editor of the Illinois Political Science Review.[49]

Journal articles

Journal articles
Article title Date/year published Journal
(volume, issue)		 DOI Notes
The Future of Chicago: A Blueprint for Political Change[98] Focus/Midwest (vol. 11, issue 73)
Neighborhood Empowerment and Urban Management in the 1980s 1983 Journal of Urban Affairs (vol. 5, issue 3) 10.1111/j.1467-9906.1983.tb00033.x co-authored by Eric S. Moskowitz
Neighborhood Empowerment and Urban Management in the 1980s 1983 Journal of Urban Affairs (vol. 5, issue 3) 10.1111/j.1467-9906.1983.tb00033.x co-authored by Eric S. Moskowitz
Council Coalitions and Mayoral Regimes in Chicago 1999 Journal of Urban Affairs (vol. 21, issue 1) 10.1111/0735-2166.00004 co-authored by Tom Carsey
Campaign Contributions and Mayoral/Aldermanic Relationships: Building on Krebs and Pelissero September 2001 Urban Affairs Review (vol. 37, issue 1) 10.1177/10780870122185208 Co-authored by Sean Hogan
Chicago's Uncertain Future Since September 11, 2001 September 2002 Urban Affairs Review (vol. 38, issue 1) /10.1177/107808702401097835 co-authored by Ola Adeoye, Ruben Feliciano, and Rick Howard
Forty Years of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago June 1, 2006 Poverty & Race (vol. 15, issue 3)
Twiley W. Barker, 83, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, died July 13, 2009 October 2009 PS – Political Science & Politics (vol. 42, issue 4) 10.1017/S1049096509990333 "In memoriam" co-authored by Richard Johnson and Kevin Lyles
Frank Tachau April 2011 PS – Political Science & Politics (vol. 44, issue 2) 10.1017/S1049096511000394 "In memoriam" co-authored by Richard Johnson and Sultan Tepe

Book reviews

Book reviews
Article title Date/year published Journal
(volume, issue)		 DOI Notes
Small and Large Together: Governing the Metropolis. By Howard W. Hallman. (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Library of Social Research, Vol. 56, 1977. Pp. 288. $14.00, cloth; $6.95, paper.) September 1979 American Political Science Review (vol. 73, issue 3) 10.2307/1955436
The New Citizenship: Unconventional Politics, Activism, and Service. By Craig Rimmerman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 154p. $45.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. December 1997 American Political Science Review (vol. 91, issue 4) 10.2307/2952216
Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability Winter 1998 Perspectives on Political Science (vol. 27, issue 1)
The American Mayor: The Best and Worst Big-City Leaders Winter 2000 Perspectives on Political Science (vol. 29, issue 1)
When Corporations Leave Town: The Costs and Benefits of Metropolitan Job Sprawl Spring 2001 Perspectives on Political Science (vol. 30, issue 2)
Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934-1997; Kraus, Neil Simpson, Dick. Fall 2001 Perspectives on Political Science (vol. 30, issue 4) 10.1177/0094306115579191t
Book Review: Political Branding in Cities: The Decline of Politics in Bogota, Naples, and Chicago, by Eleonora Pasotti. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 304 pp. $90.00 (cloth) 2011 Urban Affairs Review (vol. 47, issue 3) 10.1177/1078087410378847
The Art of the Watchdog: Fighting Fraud, Waste, Abuse, and Corruption in Government by Daniel L. Feldman and David R. Eichenthal. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2014. 353 pp. $29.95. Fall 2014 Political Science Quarterly (vol. 129, issue 3) 10.1002/polq.12244
New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future, edited by David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 590 pp. $34.95 paper. ISBN 9780199778379. May 2015 Contemporary Sociology (vol. 44, issue 3) 10.1177/0094306115579191t

Other academic work

Other academic work
Article title Date published Publisher DOI Notes
The Political Evolution of Two African Towns 1968 Indiana University Doctoral dissertation
The New Daley machine: 1989 – 2004 July 2004 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Ola Adeoye, Daniel Bliss, Kevin Navratil, Rebecca Raines
Chicago City Council’s Newly Found Independence Chicago City Council Report May 7, 2003 – December 7, 2005 January 15, 2006 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science and the Great Cities Institute Co-authored by Elias Cepeda, Socrates Harisiadis, Sharmeen Hussain, Sumaira Hussain, Kevin Navratil, James Renzetti, Tom Sdralis
From Daley to Daley: Chicago Politics 1955 - 2006 Dick Simpson May 2006 Great Cities Institute Working paper
Chicago's City Council's Increasing Independence: Chicago City Council Report May 7, 2003 – November 15, 2006 December 27, 2006 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Tom Kelly
The Independent Caucus: Breaking the Rubber Stamp Mold: Chicago City Council Report May 21, 2007 – May 13, 2008 May 13, 2008 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science and Developing Government Accountability to the People Co-authored by Tom Kelly and Pasquale Neri
Curing Corruption in Illinois: Anti-Corruption Report Number 1 February 3, 2009 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel, Andris Zimelis with Kirsten Byers, and Chris Olson
The Depth of Corruption in Illinois: Anti-Corruption Report #2 May 13, 2009 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Andris Zimelis with ith Kirsten Byers, David Michelberger, Chris Olson, and Nirav Sanghani
Cook County Wars Cook County Board of Commissioners Report February 23, 2007 – December 1, 2009 December 15, 2009 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Tom Kelly
Teaching Political Engagement 2010 American Political Science Association 10.2139/ssrn.1546557
Afterword: The Future of Sierra Leone 2010 Palgrave Macmillan 10.1057/9780230111530_11 Afterward of the book Sierra Leone Beyond the Lomé Peace Accord
Corruption in Cook County: Anti-Corruption Report #3 February 18, 2010 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science and the Better Government Association Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Tom Kelly with Kenneth Chow, Alexandra Kathryn Curatolo, Emily Gillot, David Michelberger, Marrell Stewart, and Andris Zimelis
Patronage, Cronyism and Criminality in Chicago Government Agencies: Anti-Corruption Report #4 February 2011 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel with Erica Adams, Alex Jakubowich, Mark Lund, Inna Rubin, Cori Smith, Salwa Shameem, Paris Tsangaris, and Melissa Mouritsen Zmuda
The Last of the Daley Years Chicago City Council Voting Report #5 May 21, 2007 – January 13, 2011 March 2011 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel, Tom Kelly, James Nell, Cori Smith, and Missy Mouritsen Zmuda
Chicago and Illinois, Leading the Pack in Corruption: Anti-Corruption Report #5 February 15, 2012 (updated April 18, 2012) University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science and the Illinois Integrity Initiative of the University of Illinois’ Institute for Government and Public Affairs Co-authored by Douglas Cantor, Thomas J. Gradel, Melissa Mouritsen, James Nowlan, and Zmuda David Sterrett
Green Grass and Graft: Corruption in the Suburbs: Anti-Corruption Report #6 June 22, 2012 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel, David Sterrett, Melissa Mouritsen Zmuda with Doug Cantor, Emily Marr, Mike Ramirez, Ely Sarmiento, and Nick Yodelis
Crime, Corruption and Cover-ups in the Chicago Police Department: Anti-Corruption Report Number 7 January 17, 2013 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel, John Hagedorn, Bart Kmiecik, David Sterrett, Melissa Mouritsen Zmuda with Tricia Chebat, Justin Escamilla, Dalibor Jurisic, Magdalena Waluszko, and Ivana Savic
Continuing The Rubber Stamp City Council: Chicago City Council Report #6 June 8, 2011 - February 13, 2013 April 8, 2013 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Melissa Mouritsen Zmuda
The Cook County Board in the Preckwinkle Era Cook County Board of Commissioners Report December 16, 2010 – April 16, 2014 June 3, 2014 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel, Kelly McKevitt, and Melissa Mouritsen Zmuda
Rahm Emanuel’s Rubber Stamp City Council: Chicago City Council Report #7 June 8, 2011- November 15, 2014 December 9, 2014 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Beyza Buyuker and Melissa Mouritsen
Chicago, Still the Capital of Corruption: Anti-Corruption Report #8 May 28, 2015 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel, John Johnson, and Melissa Mouritsen
2015: A Banner Year in Illinois Corruption: Anti-Corruption Report #9 March 10, 2016 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel, Ion Nimerencu, and Leslie Price
A More Active City Council: Chicago City Council Report #8 June 17, 2015 – April 13, 2016 May 23, 2016 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Maria Estrada, Thomas J. Gradel, Ion Nimerencu, and Catie Sherman
DuPage County Board Voting Analysis December 14, 2014 – December 12, 2017 February 28, 2017 College of DuPage and University of Illinois at Chicago Departments of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Melissa Mouritsen with Sergio Bauza, Marissa Frank, Gabrielle Lassen, Jake Rouka, Sarlota Vitolyte and Jennifer Wade
Chicago’s Evolving City Council Chicago City Council Report #9 June 17, 2015 – March 29, 2017 May 17, 2017 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel, Maureen Heffern, and Ponicki Allyson Nolde
The Cook County Board During President Preckwinkle’s Second Term Cook County Board of Commissioners Report December 2014 – December 2017 January 25, 2018 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Zahra Keshwani
Continuing Corruption in Illinois: Anti-Corruption Report #10 May 15, 2018 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel, Marco Rosaire Rossi, and Katherine Taylor
Chicago City Council and The Mayor: Big Questions on the Threshold to Change: Chicago City Council Report #10 April 19, 2017 – November 14, 2018 December 12, 2018 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Marco Rosaire Rossi
Corruption in Chicago and Illinois: Anti-Corruption Report #11 February 11, 2019 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Marco Rosaire Rossi
Chicago Still the Corruption Capital: Anti-Corruption Report #12 February 17, 2020 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Michael Dirksen, Thomas J. Gradel, and Marco Rosaire Rossi
From Rubber Stamp to a Divided City Council: Chicago City Council Report #11 June 12, 2019 – April 24, 2020 April 28, 2020 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Marco Rosaire Rossi
More Blue More Female More Bipartisan: DuPage County Board Voting Analysis #2 December 13, 2016 – September 8, 2020 October 23, 2020 College of DuPage and University of Illinois Departments of Political Science Primary author was Melissa Mouritsen; co-authored with Simpson, Thomas J. Gradel, Leslie Price, Muhammad Abuarqoub, Abdi Ali, Mariano Ballines, Nick Beausoleil, Bilal Hannoun, Lum Haxhiu, Lina Househ, Julie Hughes, Jeffrey Knutson, Ryan Kuhlmann, Michael Kwasnik, Michael Magel, Daniel Nichols, William Parrilli, Carinne Risch, and Jaime Zavala
Corruption Spikes in Illinois: Anti-Corruption Report #13 February 22, 2021 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Marco Rosaire Rossi
Emanuel and Lightfoot City Councils: Chicago City Council Report #12 June 12, 2019 – May 18, 2021 May 18, 2021 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Marco Rosaire Rossi
Corruption Continues Through the Coivd-19 Pandemic: Anti-Corruption Report #14 May 7, 2022 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Marco Rosaire Rossi
City Council Buries its Rubber Stamp: Chicago City Council Report #13 June 12, 2019 – March 23, 2022 June 7, 2022 University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science Co-authored by Thomas J. Gradel and Marco Rosaire Rossi

Opinion and commentary articles

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Don’t let digital campaign tools undermine democracy August 10, 2016 Chicago Sun-Times Co-authored by Betty O’Shaughnessy
Support for Trump will fade when people feel the pinch January 24, 2017 Chicago Sun-Times
The legacy of Harold Washington 30 years after his sudden death November 24, 2017 Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago voters, do you want change — or more of the same? March 18, 2018 Chicago Tribune
Schock: Possibly illegal, probably unethical and definitely Illinois September 5, 2018 Crain’s Chicago Business
Ald. Ed Burke corruption charge is a challenge to voters: Elect a better City Council January 4, 2019 Chicago Tribune
Is the Chicago machine 'dead, dead, dead'? Don't plan the funeral yet. May 31, 2019 Chicago Tribune
Four big moments in politics coming to Chicago and Illinois in 2020 December 30, 2019 Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago’s still the nation’s corruption capital — and Blagojevich is the poster boy February 27, 2020 Chicago Sun-Times Co-authored by Tom Gradel
Is that democracy in Chicago’s City Council? What a welcome change. April 28, 2020 Chicago Tribune
Chicago’s next ward map can change a neighborhood’s fate. Let the people draw the lines. April 5, 2021 Chicago Tribune Co-authored by Chris Kanich and Kathleen Yang-Clayton
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the City Council — finally, a taste of democracy in Chicago May 19, 2021 Chicago Tribune
Youth rally in the midterms to carry on the fight for democracy December 7, 2022 Chicago Tribune
Youth rally in the midterms to carry on the fight for democracy December 7, 2022 Chicago Tribune
It’s good for the city to 'Bring Chicago Home' and help those who are homeless February 19, 2024 Chicago Sun-Times

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