Word: hispanicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After more than five years of lawsuits aimed at ending discriminatory hiring practices, a federal judge last week imposed a stunningly sweeping quota system on Chicago's police department. Within the next 90 days, ruled U.S. District Court Judge Prentice H. Marshall, the department must hire 400 new officers...
Job Stampede. Last week all 338,000 welfare check recipients were mailed new eligibility forms; they must return satisfactory answers within ten days or face elimination from the rolls. Similarly, a state report last week urged that welfare benefits be reduced because an average family of four on relief gets...
Deputy Chief of Detectives William J. Averill, 62, arrives at 9:30 to command the operation and deploys hundreds of officers, many of them volunteers, who are gathering from all over the city after hearing the news. Sergeant Reddy, who ran the precinct's neighborhood police team, was popular...
Buying Paper. While the city was spending as if there were no limits, revenues were not keeping up. The percentage of blacks and Hispanic Americans climbed to almost one-third of the city's population, and more and more middle-income whites fled to the suburbs. Taxes per capita...
In a beautifully modulated performance, Hilary Jean Beane makes an acting debut of striking promise. Dropping her real middle name is the only improvement one can think of. Adeyami Lythcott plays Monty with swaggering ease and power, and the entire supporting cast is exemplary. This is an auspicious beginning for...