Chicago news (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Nearly 50 years removed from his own college days, Mayor Richard M. Daley Wednesday lambasted university presidents for campaigning to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
CHICAGO, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago magazine, the largest city monthly in the country, provides an in-depth look at the country's longest-serving big city mayor, Richard M. Daley, and how his legacy compares to that ...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
September issue compares highs and lows of father and son CHICAGO, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago magazine, the largest city monthly in the country, provides an in-depth look at the country's longest-serving big city mayor, Richard M. Daley, and how his legacy compares to that of his father. The September issue, which hits newsstands on Thursday, gives an inside look at the two men...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... in a landslide, Jones III faces only token Republican opposition. Jones and others point to the Daleys the Madigans and others as plenty of precedent in parents helping their children's way into politics. The big difference, though, is they all ran in hotly contested primaries. And Mayor Richard M. Daley actually lost in 1983, the first time he ran for mayor.
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Above: Jim Riggleman finds Mike Hargrove’s passion for baseball) White Sox 5, Mariners 0 Steve Carlton. Nolan Ryan. Tommy John. The pantheon of rotation hurlers who sport two first names has this day opened anew to accept White Sox southpaw Clayton Richard (W, 1-2). Atoning for sins recently committed in Kansas city, Richard [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a quixotic quest for justice, a civil rights group is out to expose America's third-largest city as, according to an attorney, "the torture capital of the world."
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... of Ayers’s good citizenship is incorrect.” It attempts, with endorsements from Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and two university professors, to make the case that Ayers is really a model citizen.A model citizen — at least if you overlook the sworn congressional testimony that ties Ayers to a murder. Ayers and Dohrn were credibly accused, in classified testimony before a Senate subcommittee...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... was Obama when indictments were flying in patronage scandals surrounding Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley in 2005? Saying to a Chicago Sun-Times reporter that the scandals gave him “huge pause,” before calling back the reporter an hour later to explain that the city had never looked better. Obama ultimately endorsed Daley’s reelection.This might be old news to the Chicago press,...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
CBS 2 Most Popular Pages| | | E-mail This PageGroup: City Could Privatize Recycling And Save| Aug 16, 2008 8:06 am US/Central Group: City Could Privatize Recycling And SaveCity Budget Spokeswoman Won't Say If Mayor Daley Plans To PrivatizeCHICAGO (STNG) ? Chicago could save sorely needed millions -- and speed a citywide conversion to suburban-style curbside recycling -- by privatizing residential...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... of Streets and Sanitation ward superintendents. However, unionized workers have been asked by the Daley administration they have to make sacrifices -- and possibly face layoffs -- to balance City Hall's books. Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon said labor leaders met Wednesday with aides to Mayor Richard M. Daley. He said union leaders shot down the suggestion...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
But police officers say they are skeptical because the move came just weeks after Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, a Democrat, surprised Mayor Richard M. Daley and Police Superintendent Jody Weis by suggesting publicly that state troopers and even the National Guard could be used to combat "out of control" violent crime in Chicago.
