Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the best place to begin is with the special exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts called The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation's Millenium General Assembly. It's difficult to describe this work; some call it "primitive art," others just attribute it to sheer madness and leave it at that. The Throne is a series of chairs, tables, little altars and tablets, all elaborately decorated in tin foil. It was created by James Hampton, a black, Washington D.C. janitor who apparently saved all of the tin foil he found on the job to construct...
...Police Department proved one of the more visible examples of his power. Everyone watched in April of 1968 when he issued his famous "shoot-to-kill" arsonists order after the riots following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In August of that year the nation watched again as policemen's billy-clubs did their work in Lincoln Park, clubbing Democratic presidential chances along with the demonstrators...
...neighborhood. The LaSalle St. banker, profiting from the city, probably lives in the suburbs; the neighborhood resident may well be on the verge of joining the white flight to less affluent communities, in part, because of something that doesn't work at all in Chicago: the schools--among the nation's worst...
...their importance--distract visitors from seeing the decaying inner city, which doesn't work so well. No public housing has been built recently. Daley refused to put the projects in white areas and lost federal funds as a result. Chicago remains statistically the most segregated major city in the nation. And the Machine can't and won't do much for ghetto dwellers. The infant mortality rate is higher in Chicago than in any other large metropolitan area...
...didn't work for blacks and Latins wanting to join the Fire Department--one of the nation's most discriminatory. As for the Police Department, a federal judge held up millions of dollars in revenue-sharing funds to Chicago because Daley refused to change police hiring practices...