Daley's career in politics began when he became a Democratic precinct captain ; although he was a lifelong Democrat, Daley was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican in 1936.

This was a matter of political opportunism and the peculiar setup for legislative elections in Illinois at the time, which allowed Daley to take the place on the ballot of the recently deceased Republican candidate David Shanahan.

After his election, Daley quickly moved back to the Democratic side of the aisle in 1938, when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate.

Jimmy Carter and Daley at the 1976 Illinois State Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois

" However, in January 1973, former Illinois Racing Board Chairman William S. Miller testified that Daley had " induced " him to bribe Illinois Governor Otto Kerner.

Known for shrewd party politics, Daley was a stereotypical machine politician, and his Chicago Democratic Machine, based on control of thousands of patronage positions, was instrumental in bringing a narrow 8, 000 vote victory in Illinois for John F. Kennedy in 1960.

* The Richard J. Daley Library, the primary academic library at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Richard Michael Daley ( born April 24, 1942 ), sometimes known as " Richie " Daley, is a former Mayor of Chicago, Illinois.

Prior to serving as mayor, Daley served in the Illinois Senate and then as the Cook County State's Attorney.

Daley was elected to his first party office as a delegate to the 1969 Illinois Constitutional Convention.

On the strength of his father's political machine, Daley ran for and won a seat in the Illinois Senate, serving from 1972 to 1980.

Daley was named one of Illinois ' ten worst state legislators by Chicago Magazine " for arrogance, for sharklike qualities, for living off his father's name, and for pulling puppet strings attached to some of the worst members of the Senate.

Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley had played an integral role in the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 by being the man who was able to turn out enough voters to win Illinois for Kennedy, the first Catholic U. S. president.

During the meeting, Daley explained to the president that in the 1966 congressional races, there had been a disappointing showing of Democrats, and that if the convention were not held in Illinois, that the president might lose the swing state with its twenty-seven electoral votes.

* A nickname for Richard M. Daley ( born 1942 ), mayor of Chicago, Illinois

Between 1960 and 1963, CORE wrote letters about the conditions of schools to the Board of Education ( headed by Superintendent Benjamin Willis ), Mayor Richard J. Daley, the Illinois State House of Representatives and the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Julius J. Hoffman ( July 7, 1895 – July 1, 1983 ) was a Chicago, Illinois, attorney and judge and former law partner of Richard J. Daley who achieved notoriety for his role in the Chicago Seven trial.

* Richard J. Daley ( 1902 – 1976 ), former mayor of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Under Richard M. Daley, the Illinois legislature granted the mayor power to appoint the Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools and subordinated the district under the mayor's authority ; the district had long been an independent political field.

The most historically notable — and tumultuous — convention of recent memory was the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, which was fraught with highly emotional battles between conventioneers and Vietnam war protesters and a notable outburst by Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley.

The Green Line provides access to, among other destinations, the Garfield Park Conservatory ( Conservatory-Central Park Drive ), United Center ( Ashland ) James R. Thompson Center, Richard J. Daley Center and City Hall-Cook County Building ( Clark / Lake ), Millennium Park ( Randolph / Wabash and Madison / Wabash ), the Art Institute of Chicago ( Adams / Wabash ), the Auditorium Building of Roosevelt University, Museum Campus and Soldier Field ( Roosevelt / Wabash ), the Illinois Institute of Technology and U. S. Cellular Field ( White Sox Park ) ( 35th – Bronzeville – IIT ), the University of Chicago ( Garfield ) and Kennedy-King College ( Halsted / 63rd ).

Governor Paul Simon, who had been endorsed by the Daley Machine.

Secretary of State Howlett was prepared to run for re-election in 1976, but was pressured by the Daley political organization to challenge incumbent Governor Dan Walker for the Democratic nomination in 1976.

When contacted, D ' Amico said that Blagojevich had asked him if he feared losing his job with the city of Chicago's water department, at which point D ' Amico said that he had been in a union for 26 years and could not be fired easily, and instead he opposed the capital bill because Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley opposed it.

Daley then made a successful run for Cook County Clerk and held that position prior to being elected Chicago's mayor.

With John P. Daley holding the post from 1980 to the present, a Daley has held the post of 11th Ward Committeeman for 60 years.

The well-connected Duff family, which held fundraisers for Daley, secured nearly $ 100 million from city-related contracts, partly by running a firm falsely listed as woman-owned.

In May 2010, Daley held a press conference to address gun control and a pending possible adverse decision in McDonald v. Chicago.

The first race was held on September 25, 1977 under the original name the Mayor Daley Marathon, which drew a field of 4200 runners.

After Richard M. Daley was elected Mayor in the Spring of 1989, Daley picked Burke as his Finance chairman, a position he has held ever since.

Displeased with what he saw as an overly cautious police response to the rioting, Daley chastised police superintendent James B. Conlisk and subsequently related that conversation at a City Hall press conference as follows:

On Monday a sobbing Mayor Daley tried to read a statement at a City Hall press conference.

On December 3, 2007, shortly after Patrick received the last of those payments, Mayor Daley's City Hall press secretary, Jacquelyn Heard said Patrick Daley “ has no financial interest with the Wi-Fi contract at O ’ Hare .” "... he conflict of interest was blatant ," the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized.

" We'll publicly propose a new ordinance very soon ," Daley said that afternoon at a press conference concerning the gun ban.

The Committee head for selecting the location, New Jersey Democrat David Wilentz, gave the official reason for choosing Chicago as, “ It is centrally located geographically which will reduce transportation costs and because it has been the site of national conventions for both Parties in the past and is therefore attuned to holding them .” In the end, however, the conversation between Johnson and Daley had been leaked to the press and published in the Chicago Tribune and several other papers.

After continuous abuses made on the floor of the convention of NBC correspondents – namely, interference and shadowing of the media staff by supporters of Hubert Humphrey, presumably with connections to political boss Richard J. Daley – voiced a protest of Daley's behavior and his alleged interference with freedoms of the press following Senator Abraham Ribicoff's stormy nomination of George McGovern.

Beck was, and Daley is, frequently outspoken and their opinions on recent restorations have been covered regularly by the press.

Daley called for a " summit conference " and signed an agreement with King and other community leaders to foster open housing.

State Senator Daley rarely spoke to reporters and didn ` t hold a news conference for six years.

" To do this any other way would have been needlessly contentious ," Daley explained at a news conference Monday morning.

In 1975, as the character " Harvey Daley ," he was the last person killed on the series Gunsmoke ( in the antepenultimate episode, No. 633 – " The Busters ").

Daley was Chicago's third mayor in a row from the working-class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he lived his entire life.

As television cameras focused on Daley, lip-readers throughout America claimed to have observed him shouting, " Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch.

This event arguably marked a downturn in Daley's power and influence within the Democratic Party but, given his public standing, McGovern later made amends by putting Daley loyalist ( and Kennedy in-law ) Sargent Shriver on his ticket.

Daley was known by many Chicagoans as " Da Mare " (" The Mayor "), " Hizzoner " (" His Honor "), and " The Man on Five " ( his office was on the fifth floor of City Hall ).

For the most part, the aldermen supported Daley and the official party position consistently, except for a small number of Republicans from the German wards on the northwest side of the city and a small number of independents ( a group that grew during Daley's mayoralty to represent groups that felt disenfranchised by Daley's policies ).

Aside from the obvious legacy of having an effect on the city of Chicago for twenty-one years as its mayor, Daley is memorialized specifically in the following:

* In a scene set at the Chez Paul restaurant in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, the Maître d ' ( Alan Rubin ) is seen talking on the phone: " No, sir, Mayor Daley no longer dines here, sir.

* Booknotes interview with Elizabeth Taylor on American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, July 23, 2000.

In 1962, at age 19, home on Christmas break from Providence, Daley was ticketed for running a stop sign at Huron and Rush, and the Chicago Sun-Times headline was " Mayor's Son Gets Ticket, Uses No Clout ," with a subhead reading " Quiet Boy.

Mayor Daley was married to Margaret Corbett until her death after a ten-year battle with metastatic breast cancer ( which had spread to her bones and liver ) on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2011.

Mayor Daley is a brother of William M. Daley, former White House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton ; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners who also serves as its chairman of the County Board's Finance Committee ; and Micheal Daley, an attorney with Daley & George, a law firm founded by their father Richard J. Daley, that specializes in zoning law and is often hired by developers to help get zoning changes from City Hall.

Among four Daley campaign appearances on the Sunday a week before primary week was a rally of Polish Highlanders at 4808 S. Archer Ave.

In the April 4, 1989 general election Daley faced Aldermen Timothy C. Evans, candidate of the newly created Harold Washington Party, and Republican candidate Edward Vrdolyak, a former Democrat who had antagonized Washington on the city council while Washington served as mayor.

After winning the general election, Daley was inaugurated as Mayor of Chicago on April 24, 1989, his 47th birthday, at a ceremony in Orchestra Hall.

Even as critics, many of them Catholics, derided the plan mostly on moral grounds, Daley stuck by it, calling it a fairness issue.

Daley, Patrick Huels, and Michael Tadin grew up within two blocks of each other on S. Emerald Avenue in the Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's near south side.