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Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 54th [1] mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 to 2011. Daley was elected mayor in 1989 and was reelected five times until declining to run for a seventh term. At 22 years, his was the longest tenure in Chicago mayoral history, surpassing the 21-year ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Richard M. Daley (born April 24, 1942, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American lawyer and politician, who became mayor of Chicago in 1989 and who played a major role in transforming it into a dynamic international city. Richard M. Daley is the first son of Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976 and considered “the last of the ...
May 7, 2024 · Born April 24, 1942 in Chicago. Elected to the Illinois Constitutional Convention in 1969. Married Miss Margaret A. Corbett of Mount Lebanon, Pa. in 1972; together they had four children. Elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1972. Elected state’s attorney of Cook County in 1980, twice re-elected.
Apr 21, 2022 · One Saturday in 1980, Richard M. Daley, a product of beer-chugging Bridgeport, paid a visit to Dawn Clark Netsch’s Old Town salon of pinot grigio-sipping liberals.It was the least likely ...
Apr 16, 2010 · Richard M. Daley, his eldest son, was elected mayor of Chicago in April 1989. By: History.com Editors HISTORY.com works with a wide range of writers and editors to create accurate and informative ...
Jun 14, 2022 · Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has been released from the hospital and is now at a rehabilitation center after experiencing what his doctor called a “neurological event.”Daley, 80 ...
Apr 30, 2011 · April 4, 1989: Elected mayor over Timothy Evans with 55.4 percent of the vote. April 24, 1989: Inaugurated as Chicago’s 45th mayor, Daley pledges in his inaugural address to justify voters…
Richard M. Daley. Known for his efforts to create community-based programs that address Chicago's educational, public safety, and neighborhood development concerns, Mayor Richard M. Daley (born 1942) continued the political dynasty forged by his father, a political institution in that Midwest city for more than two decades. ADemocrat by birth ...
In 1983, Richard M. Daley was defeated in his first mayoral run by Harold Washington, who won in a very close election and became the first black mayor of a major American city. In the 1989 mayoral race, Richard M. Daley’s key advisors included David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, David Wilhelm, and Bill Daley. He received just 8% of the African ...
May 3, 2011 · Richard M. Daley took over a declining blue-collar city riven by racial conflict, and leaves a global city that’s full of pleasures for the wealthy — but has a smaller middle class.
