 Three days after the board unanimously confirmed Hunt as its new superintendent, the organization removed Chicago from its blacklist.In Chicago, he doubled the school district's budget to $146 million, updated facilities with a $50 million building program, raised faculty salaries almost 50%, and relieved them from kickbacks to ward captains and ringing door bells in every election.Hunt was offered a salary of US$25,000 a year—US$9,000 more than it has ever paid a superintendent before, and US$7,000 more than it paid its mayor at the time.