Thanks to the business-friendly environment Mayor Daley has created, Chicago's business community is thriving. The Mayor's unique vision for the city has provided Chicago with the infrastructure, workforce and quality of life that are crucial to keeping existing companies here and bringing in new ones.
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Bill Daley brings a wide range of experience with respect to business, finance and government. He has a proven record of leadership and will bring to the board valuable perspective in many important areas.
Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.
Forrest served Mayor Daley well twice as chief of staff. And his proudest accomplishment is what he did with the parks. He did it with Mayor Daley's blessing. The mayor told him the parks were broken and needed to be fixed, and he fixed them.
Daley had a great summer. He should be a high draft pick and one of the better pitchers on the West Coast this season. He'll be the guy who sets the tone for us the rest of the weekend, and we're confident he'll handle that role very well.
The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.
could make a difference in the straw poll, there's no doubt about it. This is almost like the old Daley machine, where you tend to buy votes.
Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.
Others who went out of their way to offer help were turned down, such as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who told reporters his city had offered emergency, medical and technical help as early as last Sunday to FEMA but was turned down. Only a single tank truck was requested, Daley said. Red tape kept the American Ambulance Association from sending 300 emergency vehicles from Florida to the flood zone, according to former senator John Breaux (D-La.) They were told to get permission from the General Services Administration. GSA said they had to have FEMA ask for it, ... As a result they weren't sent.
Mike Royko, of course a famous local journalist, in one of his books about Mayor Daley claimed that not only did the mayor not want the expressway going through Bridgeport, but he also wanted to keep a specific divider between the whites and the blacks. Of course the Daley administration at the time denied that and said they wanted to get rid of an inelegant turn in the expressway.
In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
In 1964, Jesse Jackson turned down a summer toll-collecting job offer from Mayor Richard J. Daley to work for John H. Johnson as a salesman. He said I was a communicator, and he gave me a car to travel around selling Jet magazine to stores, ... Where Mayor Daley saw a toll collector, Mr. Johnson saw a communicator.
Gore campaign Chairman William Daley said Wednesday morning that the Florida recount effort would be suspended and that the vice president would address the nation this evening. He's both resolved and resigned, ... He can do the math. He'll do what he has to do.
Daley is due to fly to Australia in late February and is more than happy to join us for a time.
While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.