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When people look back for Daley's legacy they will not see the city he left, the city he said "worked." Rather the legacy of Richard J. Daley will be Richard J. Daley himself and his approach to government. The image of that man, however monumental a force he was, may well wither with time
...patronage Machine preceeded him and will continue--strong--after his death, but Daley's success was a personal success. Few under 30 can remember anyone else being mayor. Chicagoans worshipped the man. He received over 70 per cent of the vote in four of his six elections; he carried every one of the city's 50 wards in the '75 primary, except the liberal-chic University of Chicago neighborhood and the professionally liberal 43rd ward. Many wept in the streets when the end came, and all citizens, whatever their views, felt a sense of loss. The mayor touched the lives...
There are others, the poor and voiceless among them, who will also mourn Daley. But they will mourn the passing of the man, not of his city. For them Daley worked, though Chicago did not. They welcome the changes that will take place. Last week the acting mayor, under pressure from the Latin community, ordered Spanish taught to firemen working in Latin areas. That wouldn't have happened in what are now quickly becoming the old days--the Daley years...
When Mayor Daley died last month, people talked about a power vacuum reminiscent of that following the death of Stalin. Like other leaders of his ilk, Daley fancied himself immortal and groomed no successor. Even his son, State Sen. Richard M. Daley, whom the mayor supposedly wanted to succeed him, had been given no position of power from which to exert control over his father's domain. And many regulars hate...
More serious was the lack of any official line of succession as outlined in city law. Daley himself had vetoed succession plans on three separate occasions...