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Obama commends Daley’s years as mayor
President Barack Obama was back in Chicago yesterday with First Lady Michelle Obama for a taping of The Oprah Winfrey show. Obama spoke with reporters after the recording, praising departing…
Mayor Daley, Community Leaders Urge Defeat of Proposed Concealed Carry Legislation
Mayor Richard M. Daley, elected officials and community leaders today reiterated their strong opposition to HB 148, a measure pending in the Illinois House of Representatives that would allow Illinois…
Mayor Daley, School Officials Dedicate New Adam Clayton Powell Elementary School In South Shore
Mayor Richard M. Daley joined Chicago Public Schools officials and community members for the ribbon-cutting at Adam Clayton Powell Elementary School, 7511 S. South Shore Dr., the 12th new schools opened…
Mayor, City Officials and Community Members Dedicate Expanded Bromann Playlot Park
Mayor Richard M. Daley, Parks Superintendent Timothy J. Mitchell, Alderman Mary Ann Smith, and members of the Edgewater community today celebrated the expansion of Bromann Playlot Park, 5406 N. Broadway…
Manmade nature
The Chicago Park District unveiled a remarkably ambitious new plan earlier this month to remake Northerly Island into a park that contains everything from manmade reef islands and lagoons to a brand new concert venue. The so-called framework plan could further bolster the legacy of retiring Richard Daley as a green mayor Daley controversially tore down the Meigs Field airport in 2003 to create the Northerly Island Park.
New hope for affordable housing law
The City Council decided last week to send the Sweet Home Chicago affordable housing ordinance back to a joint Housing and Finance committee almost a month after the ordinance was voted out of the same joint committee against the wishes of Mayor Richard M. Daley.
City Services Available To Help Chicagoans Get Through Winter Weather, Mayor Daley Says
Mayor Richard M. Daley today urged Chicagoans to use common sense and help each other – particularly the elderly, people with disabilities, the sick and the homeless – to get…
Study looks at how South Side adolecents cope with violence
(AP/file) Nadashia Thomas, a cousin of Derrion Albert, after the Sept. 2009 beating death of her 17-year-old cousin.
New plans for Northerly Island
(Flickr/Sonny Cohen) Northerly Island features rare open space, scattered by prarie. It’s been almost eight years since Chicago Mayor Richard Daley took matters into his own hands and closed down the lakefront airport Miegs Field.
Daley praises General Assembly for civil unions bill
(WBEZ/Bill Healy) Chicago Mayor Richard Daley discusses civil unions at Navy Pier. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley thanked the Illinois General Assembly for passing a bill authorizing civil unions in the state.