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

Historian Michael Beschloss called Daley " the pre-eminent mayor of the 20th century.

For the remixes of these tracks, Barnes called upon Paul Daley, then a hairdresser, but also in A Man Called Adam and a formerly a session musician for the Brand New Heavies and Primal Scream, appearing on their Dixie-Narco EP.

This first edition of the modern Chicago Marathon was called the Mayor Daley Marathon.

He again footed the bill in 1978 when the race was again called the Mayor Daley Marathon.

Also attending the mass conducted by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who called it " an opportunity to pray ' for all of those involved in the administration of justice '", were White House Chief of Staff William Daley, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

The show's cast recorded a special " get-well " message for Daley after the author left the studio, unaware that he would never hear it.

The team was given a special award by the City Council of Chicago and Mayor Daley for representing Chicago in such a stellar fashion during the 2006 / 2007 FRC season.

By 1967, Daley often looked to Rostenkowski as Chicago ’ s chief liaison in Washington, and counted on him to deliver federal funds to “ grease " the machine with special projects.

Daley was usually open with the news media, meeting with them for frequent news conferences, and taking all questions — if not answering all of them.

Presiding over the meeting, Daley harshly chastized the dissenting aldermen.

Daley chaired his final city council meeting on Wednesday morning, May 11, 2011.

On October 7, 1967, at a one thousand dollars a plate fundraiser for President Johnson ’ s reelection campaign, Daley and Johnson met together for a private meeting.

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.

The show's opening credit sequence shows the Arthur Daley and Terry McCann characters negotiating over the sale of the white Ford Capri interspersed with still photos of the two main characters, highlighting Terry's credentials as a retired boxer and ex-convict, this presumably symbolising the characters ' first meeting and the terms of their partnership.

In 1966, James Bevel, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Albert Raby led the Chicago Open Housing Movement, which culminated in agreements between Mayor Richard J. Daley and the movement leaders.

* Richard J. Daley, former long-serving mayor of Chicago.

* Richard M. Daley, former long-serving mayor of Chicago.

* 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

He is currently starring in the Starz drama series Boss, as a fictional mayor of Chicago in the mold of Richard J. Daley which premiered in October 2011.

* 2003 – Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley orders the midnight destruction of Meigs Field Airport

* December 20 – Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago for 21 years, dies.

* December 20 – Richard J. Daley, American Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1902 )

** Richard J. Daley defeats Robert Merrian to become Mayor of Chicago by a vote of 708, 222 to 581, 555.

Richard Joseph Daley ( May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976 ) served for 21 years as the mayor and undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the " last of the big city bosses.

Daley had two bases of power, serving as a Committeeman and Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee from 1953, and as mayor of Chicago from 1955.

Richard M. Daley, his son, is the former and longest-serving mayor of Chicago.

Richard J. Daley was born in Bridgeport, a working-class neighborhood of Chicago.

Their eldest son, Richard M. Daley, was elected mayor of Chicago in 1989, and served in that position until his retirement in 2011.

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

" Daley's supporters challenged Walker's credibility because of his well-known opposition to Daley and Chicago machine politics.

Since Daley's death and the subsequent election of son Richard as mayor in 1989, the first Mayor Daley has become known as " Boss Daley ," " Old Man Daley ," " Papa Bear ," or " Daley Senior " to residents of Chicago.

Daley, who never lost his blue-collar Chicago accent, was known for often mangling his syntax and other verbal gaffes.

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.

A PBS documentary entitled " Daley " explained that Mayor Daley and JFK potentially stole the 1960 election by stuffing ballot boxes and rigging the vote in Chicago.

Daley had limited opposition among the 50 aldermen of the Chicago City Council.

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:

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 ).

* A week after his death, the former William J. Bogan Junior College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, was renamed as the Richard J. Daley College in his honor.

Mayor Daley expanded benefits to same-sex, domestic partners of City employees, and advocated for gun control.

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.

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

In October 1997, the mayor's City Council floor leader, Patrick Huels of the 11th Ward, the Daley family's home ward, resigned in disgrace amid allegations he used his aldermanic office to benefit his private security firm, which got a loan from city contractor and close Daley friend Michael Tadin.

In the summer of 2007, in reaction to ongoing indictments and convictions of aldermen, Daley and Huels shepparded through City Council a package of ethics reforms.

By 2002, Daley had appinted more than a third of the 50 aldermen of the Chicago City Council.

The Chicago City Council became even more of a rubber stamp than in Richard M. Daley ’ s first terms in office.

On February 18, 2004 Daley said he would have " no problem " with Cook County issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, but stopped short of saying he would follow San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom by having the City of Chicago issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, saying only the county clerk's office can issue marriage licenses.

Patrick R. Daley and his cousin, Mayor Daley's nephew, Robert G. Vanecko had a hidden interest in a sewer-inspection company whose business with the City of Chicago rose sharply while they were owners.

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.

Daley was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

In his annual budget address in City Council Chambers on October 15, 2008, Daley proposed a 2009 budget totalling $ 5. 97 billion, including not filling 1, 350 vacancies on the 38, 000-strong city payroll and $ 150 million in new revenue from a then-obscure parking meter lease deal to help erase a $ 469 million budget shortfall.

In October 2008, as Daley proposed cutting more than 1, 000 workers to plug a $ 469 million deficit in the 2009 budget, he was spending millions to promote the city's image and manage the message coming from City Hall.