He was also personally active in ward politics, and by 1924 O'Banion had acquired sufficient political might to be able to state: `` I always deliver my borough as per requirements ''.

Greater London originally had a two-tier system of local government, with the Greater London Council ( GLC ) sharing power with the City of London Corporation ( governing the small City of London ) and the 32 London borough councils.

Hradčany was an independent borough until 1784, when the four independent boroughs that had formerly constituted Prague were proclaimed a single city.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.

As a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Being the capital of the German state of Saxony, Dresden had not only garrisons but a whole military borough, the Albertstadt.

The largest borough, Westminster, had approximately 12, 000 voters, while the smallest, usually known as " rotten boroughs " had, in most cases, fewer than a hundred each.

The most famous rotten borough was Old Sarum, which had 13 burgage plots that could be used to " manufacture " electors if necessary — usually around half a dozen was thought sufficient.

In total therefore the Act disfranchised 143 borough seats in England ( one of the boroughs to be completely abolished, Higham Ferrers, had only a single representative ).

Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use.

In 1989, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional because Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 " one man, one vote " decision.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was founded in Brooklyn in 1869 and had a manufacturing plant in the borough for many years that once employed thousands of workers, but the plant shut down in 2008.

Hereford had formed a historic borough and was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.

Towards the end of his life, Holst wrote Choral Fantasia ( 1930 ), and he was commissioned by the BBC to write a piece for military band ; the resulting Hammersmith was a tribute to the place where he had spent most of his life, a musical expression of the London borough ( of Hammersmith ), which begins with an attempt to recreate the haunting sound of the River Thames sleepily flowing its way.

The borough originally had several civil parishes or parts of parishes within it but these were all merged into a single civil parish of Carlisle in 1904.

Boston ( a borough by 1279 ), on the river Witham, had over many years become an important port for Lincoln.

The wider borough, including a rural area, had a population of 153, 000.

The borough council had made several applications for city status since 1889, and took the opportunity of the visit to renew its request.

When the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent applied for city status in 1925, it was initially refused as it had only 294, 000 inhabitants.

As the borough was larger than Portsmouth, and had recently absorbed Devonport and East Stonehouse, the King agreed to the request.

In December 1963 it was announced that a charter was to be granted incorporating the new authority as " Westminster ", and that the Queen had accepted the advice of the Home Secretary to raise the London borough to the title and dignity of city.

In 1991, Robert M. Morgenthau, the District Attorney for New York County ( coterminous with the borough of Manhattan ), disclosed that his office had found evidence that BCCI secretly owned First American.

After the Norman Conquest, when certain towns were granted self-governance, the concept of the burh / borough seems to have been reused to mean a self-governing settlement.

The concept of the borough has been used repeatedly ( and often differently ) throughout the English-speaking world.

Currently there is only one borough in Australia, the Borough of Queenscliffe in Victoria, although there have been more in the past.

It has been suggested that Pitt was in fact a far more orthodox Whig than has been historically portrayed demonstrated by his sitting for rotten borough seats controlled by arisocratic magnates, and his lifelong concern for protecting the balance of power on the European continent-which marked him out from many other Patriots.

Jobs in the borough have traditionally been concentrated in manufacturing, but since 1975, Brooklyn has shifted from a manufacturing-based to a service-based economy.

Brooklyn has been New York City's most populous borough since the mid-1920s.

Until 1889, the county of Surrey included the present-day London borough of Southwark, yet the name has been used for various areas of civil administration, including the ancient Borough of Southwark, the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and the current London Borough of Southwark.

Carlisle has held city status since the Middle Ages and has been a borough constituency or parliamentary borough for centuries at one time returning two MPs.

The government eventually relented, with Balfour stating that " as soon as the necessary arrangements under the London Government Act have been completed, there will be conferred on the borough of Westminster, as constituted under the Act, the title of city, originally conferred in the time of Henry VIII ".

New Jersey's capital is the city of Trenton, but the governor's official residence has been in Princeton since 1945, when Morven in the borough became the first Governor's mansion.

Since early 2006 several parts of Addiscombe have been in the process of extensive regeneration, notably the addition of housing to the site of the former Black Horse Pub ( which is thought by some to be the oldest site of a pub in the borough ) and the demolition of church buildings in Bingham Road in order to renovate the church halls and provide luxury retirement apartments.

If the application had been accepted the borough would have been known as the City of Greenwich, similarly to the City of Westminster.

The old Southwark borough had been the location of many Courts and Prisons of Royal Prerogative, the Marshalsea and King ’ s Bench, as well as the manorial and borough courts the Surrey County magistrates had both sessions and a prison there.

Since the borough was formed it has been controlled by the Labour Party on all but two occasions.

Although this has been, in recent years, a rather depressed area of Hackney, itself a poor borough, Homerton's prospects are brightening.

After the war a substantial amount of residential housing, particularly to the east of modern Stoke Newington, in Hackney borough at the time, had been either destroyed or left in such a bad state that it was seen by the urban planners of that era as better to demolish it.

There have also been Roman finds in the borough which suggests possible Roman settlement.

The borough in its modern form was founded in 1965, from the former Municipal Borough of Hornsey, the Municipal Borough of Wood Green and the Municipal Borough of Tottenham which had all previously been part of Middlesex.

Before the new building was completed, council services had been spread throughout Uxbridge and the rest of the borough and various buildings, as a result of the merging of the former district councils.

Recycling has been compulsory in the borough of Brent since 2008. Through a green box collection scheme the borough aims to improve on the 25 per cent recycled waste it already achieves.