Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics.

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.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

* 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.

* 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 )

* February 22 – In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, 364, 839 to 264, 77.

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

Many conventioneers applauded Ribicoff's remarks but an indignant Mayor Daley tried to shout down the speaker.

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 ).

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.

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.

" Chicago journalist Elizabeth Taylor said, " Because of Mayor Daley, Chicago did not become a Detroit or a Cleveland.

In their Four Way Street live album, Nash ironically dedicates the song to " Mayor Daley.

* In episode 13 of the third season of Saturday Night Live, a sketch entitled " Miracle in Chicago " portrays Mayor Daley ( played by John Belushi ) appearing as a ghost to a pub owner and a customer ( played respectively by Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray ).

Daley has come back to give the new Mayor a few electoral tips and complain about his burial site.

* 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.

* Mayor Richard J. Daley

* Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago

It took legal actions to force them to do so: in 1864 the Supreme Court of the State of California ordered them under Writs of Mandamus ( The People of the State of California ex rel the Central Pacific Railroad Company vs. Henry P. Coon, Mayor ; Henry M. Hale, Auditor ; and Joseph S. Paxson, Treasurer, of the City and County of San Francisco.

Nathaniel Higginson, who was then the second member of the Council of Fort St George took office as the Mayor of Madras.

In 1979, Mayor Ed Koch quipped during the dedication ceremony, " I am told that some of the great cathedrals took over five hundred years to build.

Mayor Daley got at least $ 108, 575 and John Daley and his ward organization took in more than $ 47, 500 from firms in the Hired Truck Program in the same period.

It was first occupied by a Lord Mayor in 1752, when Sir Crispin Gascoigne took up his residence in it.

Meigs Field also provided commuter airline service to the public, peaking in the late 1980s as Mayor Richard M. Daley took office.

In 2005 the Mayor of London and the London Development Agency ( LDA ) took control of the NSC as part of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, and it is now managed by Greenwich Leisure on their behalf.

Mayor Jimmy Williams who took office on Jan. 1, 2011.

The current Mayor is Harold Fowler, who took office in 2009.

Collingswood has a large gay and lesbian community, Mayor Jim Maley was one of a handful of New Jersey mayors to perform midnight Civil Union ceremonies the day New Jersey's Civil Union law took effect in 2006.

, the Mayor of Hoboken is Dawn Zimmer, previously the City Council President, who took office on July 31, 2009, after her predecessor, Peter Cammarano, was arrested on allegations of corruption stemming from a decade-long FBI operation.

, the Mayor of Spotswood is Thomas Barlow who took office in July 2008, succeeding 12-year mayor Barry Zagnit who did not run for re-election.

The Mayor and Council took office after elections in May 2011, replacing the previously existing council.

The current Mayor is George Morey, who took office in April 2009.

January 1, 2011 Bill King took over as Mayor of the city.

Edgewood is governed by a mayor and borough council under the administration of Mayor J. Edward Cook ( R ), who took office in 2012.

Mayor Randy Watts took office on 3 January 2006, and was re-elected to another 4-year term beginning 2010.

Microsoft customer service representatives refused to believe that Fort Gay existed, and it took an appeal from Mayor David Thompson and media coverage for the issue to be corrected.

In 2003, Mayor Michael Bloomberg took an interest in revitalizing Coney Island as a possible site for the 2012 Olympics.

The eldest son of Sir Henry Colet, ( Lord Mayor of London 1486 and 1495 ), he was born in London in January 1467, and was educated at St Anthony's school and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his M. A.

In 2008, Thompson took the place of outgoing Mayor Ludeking, whom he defeated in the mayoral election on April 1 by nearly a 2-1 margin.

He attracted statewide attention in 1908 when he assisted Francis J. Heney in the graft prosecution of Abe Ruef and Mayor Eugene Schmitz, his success due in large measure to the fact that after Heney had been gunned down in the courtroom, he took the lead for the prosecution and won the case.

State funerals of major figures including Michael Collins and former presidents Seán T. O ' Kelly, Éamon de Valera and Lord Mayor of Dublin Kathleen Clarke took place there.

In 1987, Caguas Mayor Angel O. Berrios took over as team owner.