In the midst of the city's Special Election of February 1979, the sign above the Municipal Light Plant was vandalized. The heated debate divided many groups, and no party had a definite and unified party line. The decision to save Muny Light kept CEI from having a monopoly over the electric supply in Cleveland, but did not help solve Cleveland's financial problems, which lead Cleveland into default in December of 1979, the first major city to do so since the Great Depression. | Source: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections
