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...that big bag of money seems like a new touch. Exner told TIME she did not reveal it to Kelley because Kelley became irritated with her during an interview and walked out. Hersh supplies a corroborating witness, Martin E. Underwood, "a political operative for [the late Chicago mayor] Richard Daley," who says he was assigned to watch over Exner from a distance during her train trip to Chicago, and saw her hand the money over to Giancana...
...driving force behind this fresh approach to urban government is a handful of "new pragmatist" mayors--Indianapolis' Goldsmith, Cleveland's Michael White, Philadelphia's Edward Rendell, Milwaukee's John Norquist, Chicago's Richard M. Daley and to some extent Los Angeles' Robert Riordan and New York City's Rudolph Giuliani--who actively collaborate and compare notes on how to make cities work. Goldsmith visits Giuliani every few months to talk shop; Rendell and Goldsmith bounce ideas off each other at frequent joint speaking appearances. And good practices, big or small, travel fast. "You learn a lot from each other," says...
...Chicago, Daley has taken on his city's most intractable problem: a $3 billion school system that former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett once called the worst in the nation. Two years ago, Daley, a Democrat, convinced Illinois' Republican state legislature to hand him authority over the schools. He ousted the city's entrenched educational bureaucracy, installed a school board that put nearly 20% of the schools on probation for low performance and got approval for $850 million in bond issues to build new school buildings and renovate old ones. The Daley regime's hard-hitting reforms, which included cutting...
Chicago Mayor RICHARD M. DALEY cares about his family--and so, it seems, do federal investigators. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office are deep into a probe of possibly illegal activities at the law firm of Daley and George, Ltd., which has become a runaway favorite of anyone who might be seeking to do business with the city. The firm's principal partners are MICHAEL DALEY, the mayor's younger brother, and JOHN GEORGE, a close friend of the mayor and his family for decades. The investigation comes at a sensitive time. Chicago's city council has been...
Five months later, the Advocate Executive Board, led by President Daley C. Haggar '98 and Publisher Charles C. Savage '98, succeeded in resolving these issues by a complete overhaul of the literary organization...