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Blacks, of course, suffered the most in Daley's Chicago. It never worked for them. Although clever management by the mayor's ward bosses kept the huge black community in Daley's corner, recent years have seen them chafing under the yoke. They rose to throw Daley's states attorney out of office after he allegedly engineered the murder of two Black Panthers, and in the 1975 Democratic mayoral primary Daley failed to get a majority of black votes for the first time. Last spring black voters stood off an organization front man's challenge to Rep. Ralph Metcalfe...
...dissidents in general, Daley's Chicago obviously did not work for them. Recent revelations show that the Police Department's Red Squad spied on thousands of Chicagoans. Senior citizens groups, church groups, women's groups, community groups and dozens of others were infiltrated. Police filled files with information on reporters who wrote stories critical of the Machine, people who spoke or even signed petitions against the war in Vietnam and activists of almost any kind. The revelations probably won't stir up much resentment against the Police Department, though. Many Chicagoans approve of the spying...
...that's the way it was with a lot else that went on in the Daley years. The mayor was frequently attacked in the press ("They have vilified me, they have crucified me, yes they have even criticized me"), but he knew nothing could touch...
...showed just whom Chicago really worked for by shifting much of the city's insurance business to his son's firm, the people understood. As for his critics, they could "kiss my mistletoe," which the mayor described as attached to the seat of his pants. In explaining his action, Daley knew he spoke for many of his people in the "neighborhoods". "If a man can't put his arm around his sons, then what kind of world are we living in?" He loved his city but he loved his sons too. Chicago bought...
...truth is Chicago did not work, but Richard J. Daley did. Daley worked. He worked because he embodied the city, reflecting the feelings, moods and characteristics of many of its citizens. And he was genuine. He lived his entire life in the same Irish back-of-the-yards neighborhood. He talked like his constituents. He revered God and family. Daley made the transition from boss to father figure, columnist Mike Royko wrote, and that holds the clue to how this brontosaurus succeeded...