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Illinois Democrats in family feud
Tribune staff reportersUntil this week, it appeared that one of the few Democrats in the state that Gov. Rod Blagojevich had not seriously ticked off during his 16 months in office was the chairman of his 2002 general election campaign, Mayor Richard Daley. That abruptly...Tags: Entertainment, State Budgets, White House, Taxation, Tourism and Leisure
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Soldier Field ready for next round
Tribune staff reportersWith hulking jackhammers poised to start slugging away Monday at Soldier Field's northern entrance, perhaps the only mystery left in its latest and most dramatic journey to reincarnation is why it took so long. Although this may surprise the stadium's...Tags: Super Bowl, Defense, Multi-Sport Events, Sports, Chicago Park District
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Part 1: The threat to neighborhoods
Tribune staff reportersTwenty years ago, the city of Chicago launched a mission never undertaken before by any major American community. It dispatched teams of architectural experts to examine every last one of the city's buildings -- nearly half a million. Their charge: To...Tags: Grant Park, Sports, University of Illinois at Chicago, Tourism and Leisure, Arts and Culture
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Vision for park grew over decades
Tribune staff reporter'Millennium Park was first conceived in 1997," proclaims a City of Chicago Web site, "with the original mission of creating new parkland in Grant Park to transform the unsightly railroad tracks and parking lots that had long dotted the lakefront in...Tags: Music, Political Fundraising, Elections, Entertainment, Grant Park
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WHO WILL WEAR THE MANTLE?
Tribune staff reporterWhen Mayor Harold Washington collapsed at his desk and died last November, he left a political and spiritual vacuum in Chicago`s black community that has created the current, informal and furious power struggle among those who would succeed him. This...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Polls, U.S. Supreme Court, Chicago Park District, Harold Washington
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Richard M. Daley elected mayor of Chicago
![As Richard M. Daley claimed victory on this date in a special mayoral election that put him on a path to follow his famous father, he declared an end to a tumultuous decade in Chicago political history. "We ran a campaign that will be remembered not for its angry words, but for the hand of friendship we extended," Daley said after easily vanquishing two rivals to become the city's 45th mayor. Indeed, he had waged a low-key campaign, promising a conciliatory administration guided by common sense and fairness. It was a welcome prescription for mending political divisions that dated back to Jane Byrne's election in 1979. The rancor of Chicago politics had once led the Wall Street Journal to call the city "Beirut by the Lake."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-09/34548791-10133814.jpg "As Richard M. Daley claimed victory on this date in a special mayoral election that put him on a path to follow his famous father, he declared an end to a tumultuous decade in Chicago political history. "We ran a campaign that will be remembered not for its angry words, but for the hand of friendship we extended,\" Daley said after easily vanquishing two rivals to become the city's 45th mayor. Indeed, he had waged a low-key campaign, promising a conciliatory administration guided by common sense and fairness. It was a welcome prescription for mending political divisions that dated back to Jane Byrne's election in 1979. The rancor of Chicago politics had once led the Wall Street Journal to call the city \"Beirut by the Lake.\"")
Chicago TribuneAs Richard M. Daley claimed victory on this date in a special mayoral election that put him on a path to follow his famous father, he declared an end to a tumultuous decade in Chicago political history. "We ran a campaign that will be remembered not for...Tags: Elections, Harold Washington, Democratic Party, Chicago Tribune, Thomas Hardy
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The New Mayor Daley
Tribune City Hall reporterA few years after Richard Michael Daley was married, when he was still heir to his father's business of running Chicago and Cook County, he came down with a terrible fever and flu. His voice was a raspy croak over the phone. "Honey, I'm sick," he told...Tags: Adultery, Entertainment, Grant Park, Sports, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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