Richard J. "Dick" Daley, Sr., 94, of Kissimmee, FL, Jefferson and Worcester, MA, who peacefully left this earth Tuesday, June 17, 2025, after a period of declining health.

Richard J. Daley has rarely been portrayed as a political visionary, but he thought clearly about what needed to be done on the routine governmental side to keep his regime in power.

Now 28 years later, Daley is expected to be in Chicago for the DNC again — but this time in a much different role. The longest-serving mayor in Chicago history and son of Richard J. Daley, the ...

Richard J. Daley grew up in Bridgeport, a community that influenced his political career.

While Chicago’s downtown changed, Daley oversaw a new public housing in Chicago. While the city poured money into Chicago’s downtown, Mayor Richard J. Daley oversaw a new stretch of public ...

Northeastern Illinois University urban studies professor Lance Williams discussed the lives and political clashes of Chicago's two most powerful leaders during the 1960s - Mayor Richard J. Daley ...

Illinois delegates give Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley a cheer as he arrives on the convention floor for closing session of the Democratic National Convention at night on August 29, 1968 in Chicago.

Former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley’s name has long epitomized municipal corruption and even electoral fraud, with President John F. Kennedy as the rumored beneficiary. After his death, some ...

This wasn’t Lori Lightfoot, the current mayor, or Brandon Johnson, the mayor-elect. This was Richard J. Daley—Daley the elder, who served from 1955 until his death in 1976.

Richard Friedman at a press conference on CHA housing. Republican Friedman was a 41-year-old Better Government Association lawyer when he challenged incumbent Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1971.

The Day the Daley Machine Died The Windy City’s famed political machine suffered a fatal blow with the election of Brandon Johnson. Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago at the Democratic National ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former Mayor Richard M. Daley has been released from the hospital, five days after suffering what a spokesperson described as a "neurological event," and he is now being treated ...