Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago in 1966, but Chicago's mayor made it known the activist wasn't welcome. So why did Richard J. Daley name a street after King just two years later?
Rahm Emanuel won’t be the first Chicago mayor with connections to the White House. Richard M. Daley is a political ally of both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Daley's was a good friend of John F. Kennedy’s. And Richard J. Daley also had close ties with Lyndon Johnson.
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?
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is now the longest-serving mayor the city has ever had. He passed his father, Richard J. Daley.The elder Daley died while in office in December, 1976 after serving as mayor for 21 years and 8 months.
