Mayor Richard J. Daley looks over his notebook on his first morning at the mayor’s desk on April 21, 1955. Richard J. Daley, center, welcomes Harry Truman, left, to Chicago in 1953.

Richard E. Friedman worked in the Illinois attorney general’s office and as head of the Better Government Association before mounting a quixotic challenge to Mayor Richard J. Daley in the 1971 ...

Mary Carol Vanecko, sister of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, dies at 86 Vanecko was the second oldest of the seven children of former Mayor Richard J. Daley and First Lady Eleanor "Sis" Daley.

Now that Richard M. Daley has passed officially his father, Richard J. Daley, to become the longest serving mayor in Chicago history, let the great debate begin: Who was the better mayor? To the ...

A great-grandson of Mayor Richard J. Daley has called out several members of his extended family, accusing them of being “committed to white supremacy” in an open letter published last week.

Claypool said he wrote the book because of how much the city changed with Mayor Daley at the helm. Daley served from 1989 until 2011—a year longer than his father, Mayor Richard J. Daley.

When Richard J. Daley was elected Chicago mayor in 1955, one of his first acts was to hire a police officer who worked on his campaign to run the mayoral security detail. His new security chief ...

Though Daley’s son, Mayor Richard M., declined to be interviewed, the family was represented on film, fleetingly, by another son, William, and the mayor’s widow, Eleanor. The events of Richard ...

As the 10th anniversary of his first inauguration approaches, Mayor Richard M. Daley can take tremendous pride in the state of his city. Chicago is cleaner, safer and more industrious than it was a… ...

Outgoing Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley gavels the close of his last city council meeting during a swearing-in ceremony for mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel in in Grant Park May 16, 2011 in Chicago.