Richard M. Daley

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Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 54th Mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 to 2011.

Daley was elected mayor in 1989 and was reelected five times before declining to run for a seventh term.

He served as Chicago's longest-serving mayor for 22 years, outlasting Richard J. Daley's tenure. As Mayor Daley took over the Chicago Public Schools, expanded tourism, and the rapid expansion of the city's central business district downtown and adjacent on the south, near North, and near the West sides.

He also extended employee benefits to same-sex employees of city workers, and pushed for gun control. When family, personal acquaintances, and political allies disproportionately profited from city contracting, Daley was chastised.

He took office in a city with regular annual budget surpluses and left the city with soaring citywide deficits.

His spending created the most significant deficit in Chicago history.

He briefly reduced budgetary shortfalls by leasing and selling public assets to private corporations, but this action prevented the city's near bankruptcy during his tenure, contributing to the city's near-insolvency at the end of his tenure.

During his time as mayor of Los Angeles, police brutality was a regular topic.

Early and personal life

Richard M. Daley is the fourth of seven children and eldest son of Richard J. and Eleanor Daley, who later became Mayor and First Lady of Chicago in 1955. He grew up in Bridgeport, an historic Irish-American neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, born on April 24, 1942. Daley is a brother of William M. Daley, former White House Chief of Staff and former Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton; John P. Daley, chairwoman of the board of Commissioners and chairman of the board's Finance Committee; and Michael Daley, an attorney with Daley & Georges, a law firm that specializes in zoning issues; and developer Richard J. Daley, who was hired by developers to assist in making zoning changes through city hall; Daley was married to Margaret "Maggie" Corbett until her death on November 24, 2011, a decade-long battle with metastatic breast cancer that had spread to her bones and liver. Maggie Daley Park in the Chicago Loop honors her life and her charity After School Matters continues to help Chicago's young people. They have four children, Nora, Patrick, Elizabeth, and Kevin, who were born at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago. Kevin and their second son, Kevin, died of spina bifida at the age of two in 1981. He was born Roman Catholic.

Daley graduated from De La Salle University's high school in Chicago and earned his bachelor's degree from DePaul University in 1964, after moving from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, after two years. Daley was banned from running a stop sign at Huron and Rush in 1962, and the Chicago Sun-Times headline read, "Mayor's Son Gets Ticket, Uses No Clout" was used for the first time.

According to reports, Daley's military record is in question. Daley's only book-length biography makes no mention of military service. Daley served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1961 to 1967, according to a 1996 review in People Magazine, from 1960 to 1964. Daley's military website for Marines and their families found no military record for the Marines and their families.

Daley earned his Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University. On his third attempt, he passed the Illinois Bar Examination. "I flunked the bar exam twice," Daley said later. I had to keep learning as hard and painful as possible. "It's been to the third time." A lawsuit was never attempted by Daley.

Daley was elected to his first office as a delegate to the 1969 Illinois Constitutional Convention, which established the new Constitution of Illinois (adopted after voters approved it in a 1970 special election). Daley, according to journalist Rick Perlstein, led a crowd against pro-McGovernment protesters in June 1972. The lawsuit was ineffective, and the reformers' slate (which included Rev. ) was unbalanced. At the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, Jesse Jackson (Jesse Jackson) replaced the Daley slate.

Daley's father died in 1976, and he succeeded his father as the 11th Ward Democratic committeeman, a party leader, until his brother John P. Daley took over in 1980. With John P. Daley as the Prime Minister from 1980 to present, a Daley has been serving as the 11th Ward Committeeman for 60 years.

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Post-mayoral career

Days after leaving office, the University of Chicago appointed Daley a "distinguished senior fellow" at the Harris School of Public Policy. The five-year, part-time appointment includes responsibility for coordinating a guest lecture series. Weeks after leaving office, Daley joined the international law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, one of the law firms to which he had awarded no-bid legal work as mayor. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP had negotiated the city's much-criticized long-term lease of its parking meters, parking garages, and the Chicago Skyway. Daley joined an exclusive speakers bureau, the Harry Walker Agency, that pays tens of thousands of dollars an appearance. Daley joined the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company. Daley is a managing principal of Tur Partners LLC, an investment firm, where Daley's son, Patrick Daley, is a principal. The National Law Journal included Daley in its 2013 list of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America," based on "his political connections — the best in Chicago."

In June 2022, Daley was hospitalized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago for a "neurological" illness.

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