Better Government Association records, 1904-1990 (bulk 1923-1990).

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Better Government Association records, 1904-1990 (bulk 1923-1990).

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Candidates' statements, topically-arranged investigation files, newsclippings, press releases, minutes, and correspondence of the BGA, a Chicago non-profit, investigative organization, founded in 1923, that has focused media attention on waste and corruption in city, state, and federal government. Topics are primarily Chicago area cases, including the Alderman Thomas Keane case; investigations of government agencies, policies, and contracts, especially in health care, nursing homes, public housing, the Metropolitan Sanitary District; and an investigation of private employment agencies. Included are files from the mid-1980s from a Washington, D.C., office operated by the BGA to investigate national defense spending, the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, and government contracts with the Frigitemp Corporation, Litton Industries, and Cattle King Packing Company.

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Frigitemp Corporation.

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Challenger (Spacecraft)

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Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, after Columbia. Its maiden voyage was on April 4, 1983 and it made eight further round trips to low earth orbit before breaking up 73 seconds into the launch of its tenth mission, on January 28, 1986 killing all seven crew members. It would later be replaced by the space shuttle Endeavour, which would be launched six years after the 51-L disaster. Challenger was c...

Keane, Thomas E.

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Litton Industries

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Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976

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Better Government Association (Ill.)

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Cattle King Packing Co.

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