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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...
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Rahm gets attaboy from Burke on eve of two-year anniversary
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times | 10 days agoWith his popularity slipping, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is getting some words of encouragement from a former rival on the eve of the two-year anniversary of his election as Chicago mayor. "He's doing a very, very good job under extremely difficult -
In state where connections matter, family drama adds intrigue to Illinois' ...
News Source: Star Tribune | 10 days agoPolitics has long been a family business in Illinois, a place where who you know and who you're related to matters more than most. But the family drama shaping up around the next governor's race adds a new layer of intrigue in a Capitol already -
Sweet Home Chicago! ‘The Third Coast' and What Makes the Windy City Great, ...
News Source: New York Observer | 24 days agoIn 2007, The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl gave a talk at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in which he said that the hosting city was a great place to be, if you have a particular reason. He went on to call Chicago one of the great -
Suburbs, O'Hare mark 50-year milestone
News Source: The Daily Herald | 1 month agoKennedy formally dedicated O'Hare International Airport in March 1963. If you don't live near the behemoth, it's just that place you rush through on a business trip or the starting point for a vacation. But if you're in the airport's shadow like all -
Warnings about Redflex go back years
News Source: Chicago Tribune | 2 months agoDaley's administration were warned six years ago about preferential treatment in Chicago's red-light camera contract, a deal now embroiled in a federal corruption investigation of an alleged $2 million bribery scheme at City Hall. Executives of a -
Vanecko judge has link to old Daley Machine
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times | 3 months agoWhen the high-profile manslaughter case of a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley was shifted to a McHenry County judge, the judge quickly made one thing clear...McIntyre, who got the case because of concerns regarding Cook County judges' ties to -
Dawn Clark Netsch, 1926-2013
News Source: Chicago Tribune | 3 months agoDawn Clark Netsch was a political pathfinder for generations of Illinois women, the first to hold statewide office and the first nominated by a major party for governor. Mrs. Netsch, an unabashed liberal who decades ago championed social causes that -
The loaded shoe box
News Source: Chicago Tribune | 3 months agoDaley, a fellow Democrat, predicted the 68-year-old Powell "will be recognized as a major figure in the history of the state." The chairman of the Illinois Republican Party noted: "His lengthy tenure in office was evidence of the warmth people felt
