Richard Daley leaves office this month as one of the most ambitious mayors Chicago ever had, a political heir who embraced and transcended his birthright but whose hands-on drive to improve the cit… ...

Wednesday to expand police curfew powers, but less than an hour later Mayor Brandon Johnson announced he would veto the ...

The shift from a North Side YMCA leaves families with kids intact and makes room for hundreds of single men still sleeping at police stations, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s chief of staff said.

Chicago aldermen have approved a curfew ordinance aimed at preventing violent teen gatherings, but the city’s mayor said ...

CHICAGO - Former Mayor Richard M. Daley, who led Chicago for 22 years, is the subject of a new book, "The Daley Show," written by Forrest Claypool. Claypool, who served as Daley's chief of staff ...

Daley, who would become President Obama's chief of staff, was a college student in 1968, and spent the convention at the side of his father, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Richard J. Daley, Mayor ...

King David and Boss Daley: The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley, and Chicago on the Edge is out now. Bianca Cseke is a digital producer at WBEZ. Follow her @biancacseke1.

At his first press conference after the battle of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was gruff and to the point. “Gentlemen,” he said last week, thrusting his jaw out for angry emphasis, “get this ...

When Chicago last hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1996, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley was the king of the city as he welcomed delegates, gave speeches all around town and did all he ...

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.

American Pharaoh Mayor Richard J. Daley -- His Battle for Chicago and the Nation by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor Little, Brown, 614 pp., $ 26.95 An opponent once accused the late Mayor Richard ...