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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 would later state that his wellsprings were his religion, his family, his neighborhood, the Democratic Party, and his love of the city.
During his administration, Daley ruled the city with an iron hand and dominated the political arena of the city and, to a lesser extent, that of the entire state.
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 ).
" Many feel that by revitalizing the downtown area and firmly fixing the middle-class in place in the city limits, Daley probably did save Chicago from declining to the extent of the average Rust Belt city.
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 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.
On September 10, 1991, Daley responded to a question about the city ` s rising homicide rate by declaring " The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.
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.
Aviation interest groups unsuccessfully attempted to sue the city into reopening the airport, claiming Daley had been trying to close Meigs Field with non-safety-related reasons since 1995.
" It is fair criticism to say I should have exercised greater oversight to ensure that every worker the city hired, regardless of who recommended them, was qualified and that proper procedures were always followed ," Daley admitted a few days later.
Patrick Daley profited from two Cardinal Growth ventures formed to win city contracts while concealing Patrick's role.
The day after the Mayor's son's and nephew's hidden involvement in a city contract was disclosed in the Chicago Sun-Times, Daley left for Fort Bragg, North Carolina to see his son deployed.
" Mayor Daley also said he didn't know if there are other city contracts involving the younger Daley
In 2005 Daley criticized the deal, saying that the city wanted to renegotiate the pact.
For months, Daley rallied the city and its corporate community around a pitch to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, arguing that hosting was a way to ignite the economy.
" As a city we must continue to stand up ... and fight for a ban on assault weapons ... as well as a crackdown on gun shops ," Daley said.
Wall Street analysts noted that Daley began drawing on the city ’ s reserves as early as 2006, before the recession began.

Daley and with
Daley's Democratic political machine was often accused of corruption, but while many of Daley's subordinates were jailed, Daley was never formally charged with corruption.
Daley, though he practiced law with partner William J. Lynch, spent the majority of his time dedicated to his career in politics.
First elected mayor in 1955 with a modest victory margin of 125, 179 votes, Daley was re-elected to that office six times and had been mayor for 21 years at the time of his death.
O ' Hare was a particular point of pride for Daley, with he and his staff regularly devising occasions to celebrate it.
Daley called for a " summit conference " and signed an agreement with King and other community leaders to foster open housing.
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 defended his police force with the following statement, which was also a slip of the tongue: " The confrontation was not caused by the police.
In 1972, Democratic nominee George McGovern threw Daley out of the Democratic National Convention ( replacing his delegation with one led by Jesse Jackson ).
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.
According to columnist and biographer Mike Royko, Daley got along better with editors and publishers than with reporters.
* 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.
In a videotaped television newscast, it appears that Daley said, " You want a white mayor to sit down with everybody.
" That Friday, the campaign watchdog group CONDUCT determined that Daley said, " You want a white mayor to sit down with everybody ," and censured Daley and commended Sawyer for his " rejection of racially inflammatory comments.

Daley and assets
As Mayor of Chicago Daley was a national leader in privatization and the lease and sale of public assets to private corporations.

Daley and pension
The independent Fitch Ratings credit-rating agency downgraded the city of Chicago's bond rating in August 2010, citing the Daley administration ’ s habit of drawing on reserve funds for general operating expenses and underpaying its pension funds since well before the recession started, and pointed out the city lacks a plan for developing new revenue and faces a rising tide of fixed operating costs.

Daley and funds
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.
The North Pond Nature Sanctuary is notable as the site where Mayor Richard M. Daley and the US Fish and Wildlife Service signed an Urban Conservation Treaty for Migratory Birds in April, 2004, making the city eligible for federal funds to restore habitat for the lakefront migratory pathway for birds.

Daley and so
After the violence which took place at the Chicago convention, Daley claimed his primary reason for calling in so many Guardsmen and police was reports he received indicating the existence of plots to assassinate many of the leaders, including himself.
He supported the use of tax incentives to help redevelop brownfield formal industrial land, developing a proposal with Democrats, such as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, to do so.
The jury were told by Nigel Sweeney QC that " we have to make you sure that Stone confessed " and so the jury tested the evidence of Damien Daley by actually visiting the cells in question where an extract from one of the Harry Potter stories was read out through the duct in the cell wall.
Because the Olympic Village is located within the Olympic Park, about 75 percent of athletes would be within 15 minutes of their venues ; this compact design, according to double Olympic decathlon gold medallist Daley Thompson, would " make experience so much more inspirating and real ".

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