" The judge, aware that Cermak might not survive his wounds, replied: " Maybe there will be more later.

Amid growing discontent with Thompson's leadership, particularly in the area of cleaning up Chicago's reputation as the capital of organized crime, he was defeated in 1931 by Democrat Anton Cermak.

Cermak was an immigrant from Bohemia, and Thompson used this fact to belittle him with ethnic slurs such as:

Born in Kladno, Austria-Hungary ( now in the Czech Republic ), Cermak emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1874.

When Cermak challenged the incumbent " Big Bill " Thompson in the 1931 mayor's race, Thompson, representative of Chicago's existing power structure, responded with ethnic slurs:

His strategy with the party mirrored the balanced ticket approach of 1930s Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who created the Cook County Democratic Organization, characteristic of Chicago by balancing ethnic interests.

Another point is that Zangara had been an expert marksman in the Italian Army ( though not with a pistol from a great distance ), and would presumably hit his target, so perhaps Cermak was the intended victim.

There the line again transitions from embankment to elevated structure to bridge Canal Street, Cermak Road and the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad tracks then curves east to run along the south side of 18th Street, crossing over the Red Line and Metra's Rock Island District tracks near Wentworth Avenue, before joining the other CTA ' L ' lines immediately east of State Street, with the northbound track flying over the double track South Side Elevated.

As of May 2008, Blue Line service to 54th / Cermak no longer operates ; it has been replaced with the new Pink Line.

Roosevelt Road ( previously Twelfth St ) is one mile south of Madison with 1200 addresses to the mile, Cermak Road ( previously 22nd Street ) is two miles south of Madison with 1000 addresses to the mile, and 31st Street ( 3100 S ) is three miles south of Madison with 900 addresses to the mile.

The Showmen's League of America, formed in 1913 with Buffalo Bill Cody as its first president, had recently selected and purchased the burial land in Woodlawn Cemetery at the intersection of Cermak Road and Des Plaines Avenue in Forest Park, Illinois for its members.

* Feb. 15, 1933-Corrupt Chicago mayor, Anton Cermak, was riding in an open car with President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Miami, FL, when Cermak was hit with sniper bullets.

Points of interest include: the art-deco Marshall Square Theater at Cermak Road and Marshall Boulevard, which was originally a vaudeville venue, later a silent movie theater, and currently a venue for banquets, weddings, and Latin music under the current name of " Apollo's 2000 "; the remaining building of the former Albaugh-Dover mail-order warehouse and factory on Marshall Boulevard at 21st ; the massive Carter Harrison High School at 24th Boulevard and Marshall Boulevard, now an elementary school named for Maria Saucedo, an area teacher who lost her life in a fire in 1981, and is the alma mater of clarinet player Benny Goodman and newspaper columnist Irv Kupcinet ; and the highly visible statue of Marquette and Joliet which stands at the junction between Marshall and 24th Boulevards.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* 1933 – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.

* March 6 – Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago dies of the wound he received on February 15.

With support from Franklin D. Roosevelt on the national level, Cermak gradually wooed members of Chicago's growing black community into the Democratic fold.

He also brought up recent instances of assassination attempts against sitting Presidents ( including the murder of Mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak in a botched assassination attempt on then-President-elect Franklin Roosevelt ), as well as a recent attack on United Nations ambassador Adlai Stevenson in Dallas, which had resulted in extra security measures being taken for Kennedy's visit to the city.

Five people were hit, including Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, who was standing on the running board of the car next to Roosevelt.

Cermak died of peritonitis 19 days later, on March 6, 1933, two days after Roosevelt's inauguration.

This episode focuses on Nitti's plan to kill Mayor Cermak, which fails, thanks to Eliot Ness.

Max Allan Collins ' 1983 novel, " True Detective ," first in the Nathan Heller mystery series, features Zangara's attempted assassination of Roosevelt, positing it as an actual attempt on Chicago's mayor at the time, Anton Cermak.

There is a stop at Cermak – Chinatown on this portion.

The Pink Line now serves all stations on the 54th / Cermak branch.

The line runs east on street level right-of-way just north of and parallel to Cermak Road from the terminal to about a quarter-mile ( 400 m ) east of Cicero Avenue, then diagonals northeast until it reaches a corridor parallel and adjacent to 21st Street at Kostner Avenue.

Four miles of continuous high-rise housing projects ( Stateway Gardens and the Robert Taylor Homes ) formerly ran parallel to the expressway on its eastern side from Cermak Road south to Garfield Boulevard.

The Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, is on the South Side ( located in the Armour Square community area ), centered on Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of an American Chinatown, or ethnic-Chinese neighborhood.

The # 21 runs east – west on Cermak Road, and the # 62 runs diagonally southwest – northeast on Archer Avenue.

* 1933: Funeral of Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, the sole fatality in an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin Roosevelt.

On October 20, 1934, he married Helena Cermak, daughter of the late Anton Cermak, who had been mayor of Chicago before he was shot and mortally wounded in Miami, Florida, in 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara in what may have been an attempt on the life of president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The grounds was on a block bounded by 23rd Street, State Street, 22nd Street ( now Cermak Road ) and what is now Federal Street.

Chinatown is in the near South Side ( located in the Armour Square community area ), centered on and around Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of an American Chinatown, or ethnic-Chinese neighborhood.

The portion of K-Town bounded by W Cullerton St, W Cermak Rd, S Kostner Ave, and S Pulaski Rd was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 2010.

This exodus was led by the On Leong Merchants Association who, in 1912, had a building constructed along Cermak Avenue ( then 22nd Street ) that could house 15 stores, 30 apartments and the Association's headquarters.

The introduction of stimuli which were hard to verbalize, and unlikely to be held in long-term memory, revolutionized the study of VSTM in the early 1970s ( Cermak, 1971 ; Phillips, 1974 ; Phillips & Baddeley, 1971 ).

Five days later, most of those killed, many of them burned beyond recognition, were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, at the intersection of Cermak Road and Des Plaines Avenue in Forest Park, Illinois, in a section set aside as Showmen's Rest, which had been purchased by the Showmen's League of America only a few months earlier.

Anton " Tony " Joseph Cermak (, ; May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933 ) was an American politician of Czech origin, mostly known as the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his assassination in 1933.

Cermak was elected president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 1922, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party in 1928, and mayor of Chicago in 1931.

Before Cermak, the Democratic party in Cook County was run by the " Lace Curtain " Irish.

Giuseppe Zangara ( September 7, 1900 – March 20, 1933 ) was the assassin of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, though United States President – elect Franklin D. Roosevelt may have been his intended target.

En route to the hospital, Cermak had allegedly told FDR, " I'm glad it was me instead of you.

Allegedly, Mayor Cermak was the real target, because of his pledge to clean up the rampant gang violence in Chicago.

Another speculation is that Cermak was connected to the Outfit's underworld rivals.

Some versions of this story assert that Zangara was a diversion for a second gunman who was to shoot Cermak ; but this alleged second gunman was never seen.

* 1933-Giuseppe Zangara assassinates Chicago mayor Anton Cermak ; the intended target was President-elect Roosevelt, who was not wounded.

South of Cermak Road is the Motor Row District, a historic strip along Michigan Avenue that was home to many early 20th century automobile " palaces.

The Congress and Douglas branches were renamed for their respective terminals, Forest Park and 54th / Cermak, when the current color naming system was adopted in 1993.

Corr was in his second term as alderman when Cermak was assassinated in March 1933.

Following the assassination of Mayor Anton Cermak, Kelly was hand picked by his friend, Patrick Nash, Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, for the mayoralty election of 1933.

Set immediately after the liberation of Port Arthur, the player once again assumes command of Zulu company in a campaign to liberate the desolate planet Cermak in the Periphery, taken by a renegade Smoke Jaguar, Star Colonel Marcus Kotare ( a character that was featured briefly in MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries ), for an unknown reason that is revealed later in game.