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Chicago’s ‘Mayor for Life’ Decides Not to Run

September 8, 2010 By SUSAN SAULNY CHICAGO — Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. “Simply put, it’s time,” he said. “Time for me. And time for Chicago to move on.” Later, he... Full article »

Richard M. Daley: Milestones

September 8, 2010 A collection of notable moments in the history of Richard M. Daley, longtime mayor of Chicago.... Full article »

CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE; Potential Rivals for Mayor Daley of Chicago Stand Back

September 5, 2010 By DAN MIHALOPOULOS and MICK DUMKE Many Chicago political axioms have come under assault from reformers and federal prosecutors in recent years, including “Where’s mine?” and “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” But “You can’t beat somebody with nobody” remains as true as ever with the 2011 mayoral election less than six months... Full article »

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; My Kind of Technocracy

August 15, 2010 By JAMES WARREN Chicago DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, a gin and porterhouse kind of guy, surely would have felt out of place at the Chicago restaurant where President Obama celebrated his 49th birthday the other day. Mr. Obama went to the celebrity chef Graham Elliot Bowles's eponymous new joint, which has featured risotto with green apple, Wisconsin cheddar and Nueske bacon,... Full article »

CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE; On Display, The Mayor As Epicure

July 16, 2010 By DAN MIHALOPOULOS The grill in the Jefferson Park neighborhood promises the Bungalow Belt's traditional fast-food favorites: ''The Chicago Way: Beef, Burgers, Dogs.'' It's the gut-busting fare, for better or for worse, that has come to unofficially symbolize the city. But in the Chicago of Mayor Richard M. Daley, the most celebrated foods are more likely to be Kobe... Full article »

CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE | THE CHICAGO WAY; Daley Charity Gets More From City

June 6, 2010 By DAN MIHALOPOULOS; Katie Fretland contributed to this report. Most city workers are being forced to take almost five weeks off without pay because of what Mayor Richard M. Daley has called the worst financial crisis in decades. At this time of record deficits, however, the city is giving more than ever to After School Matters, the charity led by Mayor Daley's wife. The nonprofit group, founded by Maggie Daley... Full article »

CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE; THE CHICAGO WAY; Alderman Gives a Critic of the Mayor a New Vest and New Duties

May 21, 2010 By DAN MIHALOPOULOS They form an odd sight on the once-mean, now-trendy streets of Bucktown and Wicker Park: The bespectacled alderman of a young, affluent ward and his blue-collar aide, popping sewer grates and wielding shovels. Almost five years after the Daley administration fired Frank Coconate from the Water Management Department for allegedly loafing and lying... Full article »

CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE; A Wish for More Community in Mixed-Income Units

May 21, 2010 By EMMA GRAVES FITZSIMMONS Johnnie Braswell moved into Westhaven Park four years ago, after living in the midst of violence and drugs for 43 years in the Harold Ickes public housing complex on the South Side. Ms. Braswell said she felt safer now and liked her modern apartment, but she said she wished the building's condominium owners would socialize more with the public... Full article »

CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE | THE CHICAGO WAY; New List on City's Web Site Opens Window on the News Media, Not on Daley

May 16, 2010 By DAN MIHALOPOULOS Mayor Richard M. Daley shrugged and insisted to reporters last week that his latest effort at ''enhanced Web transparency'' -- publishing Freedom of Information Act requests as they are filed -- was all about better government. As the mayor tends to say so often: Let's be realistic. Local news media have long pushed the notoriously opaque Daley... Full article »

Rumblings in the New York Skies

May 5, 2010 By MONICA DAVEY CHICAGO -- Mayor Richard M. Daley and other politicians stood with the leaders of United and Continental airlines in downtown Chicago on Tuesday, proudly underscoring plans that the proposed merged airline -- to be the largest in the world -- will have its headquarters here. Though no one said so, a thanks (or apology) might have been in order to... Full article »

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