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DEPAUL UNIVERSITY Richard Daley, Chicago mayor LL.D...
...Thanks to Daley, Chicago is fast becoming a city Of a few gold-coast areas surrounded by 20-floor ghettos inhabited by aborigines and savages...
...Chicago's Richard Joseph Daley, 59, is not only mayor but absolute boss of the state Democratic machine and a formidable political manipulator with considerable "clout" on the national scene. Almost the last of the oldtime big-city bosses, he is a capable, Buddha-like civic leader who has used his political power to make Chicago one of the best-run cities in the U.S. He still lives in the humble back-of-the-yards district where he was born, works late into the night at his office, and was embarrassed last week to learn that he had been...
...newest (and the nation's largest) public housing project. After living in three verminous rooms in a rooming house, the Adamses found it a paradise. Said Mrs. Adams: "It's like a dream, only better. Everything is new and clean-and no cockroaches." By 1967. Mayor Daley hopes that Chicago will have eliminated all its slums...
...faults. New York and Boston are using "selective redevelopment'' aimed at sprucing up old neighborhoods-such as Boston's historic North End-without heavy demolition and rebuilding. In many cities local citizens' committees are consulted at every step of redevelopment. Says Chicago's Mayor Daley: "You can't just rebuild a city physically without looking into the needs and wants of the people." When a Tennessee family in Boston refused to be budged because they were ashamed to expose their shabby furniture, authorities arranged for a local Roman Catholic Church to provide them with...