Chicago Municipal Court records, 1900-1927.

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Illinois. Municipal Court (Chicago). Chicago Municipal Court records, 1900-1927.

Chicago Municipal Court records, 1900-1927.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711887130

Correspondence, financial reports, legislative bills, clippings and other materials relative to the Municipal Court of Chicago during the Chief Justiceship of Harry Olson. The collection includes letters (many carbon copies), statistical and financial reports, printed copies of legislative bills, newspaper clippings, etc. There are also letters from judges, bailiffs, other court employees, and from the public pertaining to court policies and operations, specific cases before the court, and judicial conduct. Other topics include various branches of the court, including the Psychopathic Laboratory (later known as the Psychiatric Institute), established in 1914. Many items involve administrative matters, such as salaries, budgets, judicial assignments, the number and type of cases tried. Records filled out by Thomas M. Hunter (1906-1912) and Anton J. Cermak (1912-1919) as bailiffs also are present. Boxes 1-6 contain letters; boxes 7-8 contain newsclippings, 1908-1916, from a disassembled scrapbook that was compiled by Judge Harry Olson. Controversy over the probation policies of Judge McKenzie Cleland are discussed in folders 8, 12-13, 19, and 21. Care of, and legislation regarding people with mental disabilities is discussed in folders 27-31. Municipal Court legislative bills, amendments, and related discussion are in folders 23-25, 30, 32 and 45. Lectures given by Olson on the Municipal Court, law enforcement, and related topics are in folders 37-43.

2 oversize folders.

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