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...ELIOT A. DALEY...
...case, city officials pointed out that the landlord had already been charged with building-code violations. Said Mayor Richard Daley: "There are legal ways and illegal ways of achieving our objectives. None of us would say we should use illegal ways. We have our courts and our legislature...
Thanks to the well-oiled Democratic machine of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley and his own lingering reputation as a liberal standard bearer, Douglas, 73, enters the race as the probable favorite. Nonetheless, in two years of assiduous politicking, Percy has managed to make himself almost as well known as Douglas. Moreover, the Cook County machine, which traditionally has counted on solid support from Chicago's Negroes, has antagonized civil rights groups by foot dragging on school integration, housing, welfare and poverty programs. Even last year Percy showed impressive strength in the Negro wards. "It will...
...Goddammit," roared Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, "they're kicking the hell out of us!" The Windy City's plain-spoken boss was referring not to Republicans, but to underprivileged citizens who might ordinarily be among his most loyal supporters were it not for a delayed time bomb built into the $2.3 billion war on poverty that has repeatedly brought the Democratic program into conflict with big-city Democratic machines...
Chicago's poor are waging a bitter offensive against Daley, who has maintained iron control over the $21 million that the city has received so far. Daley's 75-member Committee on Urban Opportunity (chairman: Richard Daley) is securely ballasted in favor of city hall. Last week, presiding over a banquet celebrating the first anniversary of his anti-poverty board, the mayor grandly ignored pickets from the Woodlawn Organization, a militant neighborhood action group, parading outside to protest its exclusion from the parent body. To charges that wardheelers dominate his program, Daley retorted: "What's wrong with...