Others believed that tax increment financing gave Daley too much discretion in allocating public money. A number of developments led observers to question Daley's management style. Some members of Daley's staff resigned under allegations that they had used their positions for personal gain.
In other instances, investigative newspaper reporters found irregularities in the allotment of city contracts, perhaps most famously in the city's "hired truck scandal," which resulted in federal prosecutions. However, Daley himself was never charged with corrupt practices. Despite those and other challenges, Daley retained power. The City Council always ratified his budgets and almost never voted against his policy preferences. After Daley retired, he was succeeded by Rahm Emanuel, who became mayor on May 16, Washington wins the nomination and the general election.
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Daley then returned to Chicago and was elected Clerk of Cook County. Meanwhile, he had married Eleanor Guilfoyle on June 23, , and was the father of four sons and three daughters. A devout Roman Catholic, Daley reportedly attended mass every morning.
The key that opened his way to the mayor's office was Daley's election as chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee in In Daley entered a Democratic primary election and defeated incumbent mayor Martin H.
In the general election which followed, Daley beat Republican challenger Robert E. Merriam by a comfortable majority of the vote. During the next two decades Daley was reelected mayor over a series of nominally nonpartisan but generally Republican contenders in , , , , and The source of Daley's power derived from his dual role as mayor and party chairman.
He ran a tightly organized party structure and made maximum use of about 35, city workers and patronage employees to bring out the vote. Daley also won public support because he paid attention to the delivery of municipal services and gave substance to the slogan "the city that works. Kennedy win the Democratic nomination and the presidential election in brought Daley his first national recognition as a political strategist. Dedicated to building and redeveloping Chicago's center, Daley encouraged the construction of downtown skyscrapers, stimulated expressway expansion, improved mass transit facilities, and enlarged the world's busiest airport, O'Hare.
His administrations also set a rapid pace for urban renewal, the demolition of blighted areas, and the building of additional public housing. As with all of his enterprises he mixed politics and business, and for the scoffers, Daley repeated over and again: "Good politics makes for good government. Get that, organization not machine. One notable exception was when a lucrative insurance contract was given over to a firm employing a Daley son.
When chided, Daley exploded with rage over the issue, insisting that it was the duty of any good father to help out a son. Beyond that misdeed numerous clandestine investigations by public and private agencies and local newspapers failed to produce a single solid charge of peculation against the mayor personally.
The year was a disaster for the Daley legend. In the wake of Martin Luther King's death in April a firestorm of arson, looting, and rioting swept through Chicago's Black West Side, and an enraged mayor issued an order which was broadcast across the newspaper headlines and television screens of the nation: "shoot to kill any arsonist … with a Molotov cocktail in his hand.
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