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• 1 media/EXHRMD_RJD_04_01_0038_0004_001.jpg media/EXHRMD_RJD_04_01_0038_0004_001.jpg 2019-12-20T01:50:56-06:00 A New Beginning in Chicago 69 Richard M. Daley became Chicago's mayor in the wake of the racial divisions, loss of faith, and transformations in the global economy that had become so evident in the 1980s. plain 2020-05-22T13:29:57-05:00 Richard M. Daley announced his decision to run for Chicago's mayor on December 5, 1988.In the speech in which he announced his candidacy, he said, "It's time for a new beginning in Chicago,":

  The name-calling and politics at City Hall are keeping us from tackling the real issues. It’s time we stop fighting each other, and start working together.

  img:[Richard M. Daley shakes hands at a 47th Ward mayoral election campaign event, 1989. Photo: Sandy Bertog. Richard J. Daley collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, RJD_04_01_0038_0004_001.]

  John Schmidt, who worked on Daley's 1989 campaign, remembers that the campaign focused on transcending racial divisions:
  
  
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  Read the speech in which Richard M. Daley announced his candidacy for mayor on December 5, 1988:

  
  While the focus of Daley's campaign was on bringing Chicagoans together, it also touched on broader trends, such as the city's need to adapt to new economic challenges.
  
  From the Daley Agenda for Chicago's Future:

  Chicago can make up for the shift in business trends by taking the forefront in the fight for new jobs in growing fields like finance and health care. Chicago cannot afford to focus on only one economic sector, ignoring the growth industries of the 1990s.

  Daley won the election and took the oath of office on April 24, 1989. In his inauguration speech, he reiterated the themes of his campaign and offered his vision for addressing the challenges facing Chicago.

  Listen to Mayor Daley’s first inauguration speech, as reported by Bob Crawford of WBBM Chicago:
  

• 1 media/EXHRMD_MSLASZ13_0002_0016_003.jpg media/EXHRMD_MSLASZ13_0002_0016_003.jpg 2020-04-17T15:02:36-05:00 Public Servant 45 plain 2020-05-08T15:35:13-05:00

  In 1989, Richard M. Daley had a long record of public service.
  
  img: [Illinois State Senator Richard M. Daley (center) stands with his father, Mayor Richard J. Daley, to his left and Alderman Michael Bilandic to his right on a boat on Lake Michigan during a Chicago Park District fish derby, circa 1972-1976. Photo: Laszlo Kondor. Laszlo Kondor Photograph collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, MSLASZ13_0003_0004_039.]
  
  He won his first election in 1969, for delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Convention (1969-1970).
  
  img: [Voter's guide to the new constitution of Illinois, first page, 1970, Richard J. Daley collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, EXH_RJD_02_01_0093_0001_001.]
  
  In 1972, Daley won election as state senator. He served in that position from 1973 to 1980.
  
  img: [Illinois State Senator Richard M. Daley stands with his brother, John. Photo: Laszlo Kondor. Laszlo Kondor Photograph collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, MSLASZ13_0002_0003_013.]
  
  
  Img: [State Senator Richard M. Daley and Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic review the St. Patrick's Day parade, circa 1970s. Photo: Laszlo Kondor. Laszlo Kondor Photograph collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, MSLASZ13_0001_0003_006.]
  
  
  
  In 1980, Daley ran for state's attorney of Cook County:
  Img: [Flyer promotes Richard M. Daley for Cook County State's Attorney, 1980. Richard M. Daley papers, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, EXH_RMD16_06_0002_0001_013.]
  
  William Daley explains how his brother won the state's attorney election in 1980:
  
  
  In 1983, Daley sought the Democratic nomination for mayor, but lost to Harold Washington.
  
  
  
  Img: [Poster promotes Richard M. Daley for mayor of Chicago, 1983. Richard M. Daley papers, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, EXH_RMD16_06_0004_0004_001]
  
  After the defeat in 1983, Daley continued serving as state's attorney until 1988, when he decided to run for mayor..

  John and Michael Daley remember their brother's management of the state's attorney's office:
  
  
  
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• 1 media/EXH_RMD16_03_0091_0026_005_pg1.jpg 2020-04-24T15:50:38-05:00 Sidebar: Northerly Island Park 43 Interviewees discuss the controversy over Mayor Richard M. Daley's decision to turn Meigs Field Airport into Northerly Island Park. plain 261 2020-05-21T14:55:00-05:00

  img: [image about Meigs Field: but a “vivid” document is acceptable if necessary.] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020] 

  Expanding parkland sometimes involved difficult decisions. One example was Daley’s advocacy for a new park at Northerly Island near downtown. This land, near Chicago’s museum campus, was the site of Meigs Field, a small airport.

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  quote: [RMD speech about Northerly Island, pre-plowing] [note: Dan needs to research and find good quotation]

  Others, however, disagreed with Daley:

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  Quote: [note: counterpoint to RMD] [note: Dan needs to research and find good quotation]

  Around midnight on Monday, March 31, 2003, the mayor secretly ordered trucks to plow six large X's onto the landing strip at Meigs Field, effectively destroying the runway.
  img: [ideally image of Meigs Field with X's. Maybe from Daley Dailies? Needs to be sent to photo lab. Maybe purchase from Tribune?]
  
  Sheila O’Grady, Daley’s chief of staff (2000-2005), recalls the mayor feared Meigs Field posed a security threat in light of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks fewer than two years prior:

  Some disagreed with the mayor’s decision:

  John McCarron, columnist and urban planning expert:
  Lester Crown, Chicago business person:
  Andrew McKenna, Chicago area businessperson, explains the reaction of the business community:
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  Jackie Heard, the mayor’s press secretary (1997-2011), recalls tough questions from reporters, but also remembers the appeal of Daley’s decision:

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• 1 media/EXH_RMD16_07_0091_0007_001.jpg 2020-04-14T03:07:31-05:00 Managing emergencies 42 plain 2020-04-30T18:03:07-05:00 Like all mayors, Daley faced a number of emergencies that sometimes compelled him to make tough decisions.
  
  Nora Daley-Conroy comments:
  
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• 1 media/EXH_RMD16_07_0203_0013_001_026.jpg media/EXH_RMD16_07_0203_0013_001_026.jpg 2020-04-14T03:07:55-05:00 Housing 27 plain 2020-04-27T16:45:44-05:00  

  Daley implemented programs to encourage developers, assist homeowners and renters, promote affordable housing, and fix problems in public housing.

  Affordable housing initiatives

  img: [affordable housing expo images: esp. 7-215-30 or 7-216-2] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020] 
  img: [documents from renter assistance programs] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020] 
  img: [documents on efforts to fight predatory lending, e.g., HB 4050: 1-287, folders 2 through 7; or 1-303-6] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020]  

  The Plan for Transformation

  img: [Public housing image, perhaps from RMD’s tour of Cabrini Green in 1992: 7-97-42/44….may also be a daily schedule for the tour] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020] 
  
  When Mayor Daley took office in 1989, public housing in Chicago faced a number of challenges.
  
  Julia Stasch, housing commissioner (1997-1999), explains:

  To address those problems, Mayor Daley worked with the federal government on what came to be called the Plan for Transformation. Under this plan, highrise complexes gave way to mixed-income developments.

  Elzie Higginbottom, Chicago real estate developer, and Marilyn Katz, a political consultant to the mayor, discuss the importants of mixed-income developments:
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  Terry Peterson, CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority (2000-2006), comments on the help Chicago received from the federal government:

• 1 2020-04-16T17:43:45-05:00 Demographic transformations 22 plain 2020-06-11T17:42:42-05:00

  Since 1980, approximately 400,000/250,000  African Americans [note: need to find source of this claim and verify the number: refer to it in the text and include it in bibliography.] have left Chicago.

  Avis LaVelle, Daley’s press secretary (1989-1992), Barack Obama, U.S. president (2009-2017), and William Daley, the mayor's brother, comment on those demographic changes:
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  img: [need image to represent African Americans in Chicago and/or their declining numbers] [needs to be sent to photo lab]
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama (2009-2017) comments further:

• 1 media/EXH_RMD16_07_0272_0006_001_004.jpg 2020-05-11T17:04:50-05:00 Sidebar: Hired truck controversy 18 Interviewees comment on what became known as the "hired truck" controversy plain 2020-05-22T15:39:54-05:00 Victor Reyes, who worked in Daley's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, explains the hired truck controversy:
  John Schmidt, chief of staff (1989) and advisor to Mayor Daley, comments on a city official implicated in the controversy:
  
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  William Daley, the mayor's brother, reflects on the controversy and the reaction of the news media:
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