Dick Simpson
Professor emeritus of political science
Biography
Chicago is the nation’s capital of public corruption, according to an analysis by political scientist and former Chicago alderman Dick Simpson.
A frequent contributor to media coverage of city and state politics, Simpson is an authority on political corruption as well as on elections, legislators’ voting patterns, local government, budgeting, and neighborhood empowerment.
His research has influenced reform efforts in many units of government. Simpson is author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including “Winning Elections” (1996), “Rogues, Rebels and Rubber Stamps” (2001), “Inside Urban Politics” (2004), “Struggle for Power and Influence in Cites and States” (2011), “The City, Revisited” (2011), “Twenty-First Century Chicago” (2012) and “Democracy’s Rebirth: The View from Chicago” (2022).
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In the News
UIC hosts civic leader lecture series
October 25, 2018
UIC students gather to voice top political concerns
November 14, 2013
Monday: Panel to discuss Illinois politics and the public university
October 11, 2013