7. CIVIL WAR--During it, two former Chicago mayors were held prisoner at Chicago's infamous Camp Douglas Confederate prison (where 6,000 died). They were suspected of being "Copperheads" or Southern sympathizers. Both were eventually freed-- Levi Boone after 37 days and Buckner Morris after 6 months.
8. HARD DRINKIN', HEAVY EATIN'-- "Long John" Wentworth was called a hard-drinking, heavy-eating, 6'6" autocrat.
When a state law shifted control of the Chicago police force from him, he fired the whole force in the 1860s. This left the city of 100,000 with not one single cop for a few hours until new board could meet.
One More to Go, and Nary a Daley Amongst Them. --Cooter
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