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storyPittsburgh Cleaned Up City Hall—Then Power Learned the New RulesIn 1911 Pittsburgh replaced its sprawling ward-based councils with nine at-large seats; decades later, representation problems forced the city to reform the reform.Historycity council1911 reform
storyThe Price of a Pittsburgh CouncilmanPittsburgh’s early-twentieth-century graft investigations showed how council votes, bank interests and public business could acquire a private price—and helped destroy the old council structure.Historycity hallgraft