Mayor Richard J. Daley with his family in his new office in City Hall on April 20, 1955. Left to right are William, 7; Michael, 11; John, 8; Richard Jr.,12; Daley, Mrs. Daley, his father; Mary Carol, 16 and Eleanor 14.
Mayor Richard J. Daley looks over his notebook on his first morning at the mayor’s desk on April 21, 1955.
Richard J. Daley, center, welcomes Harry Truman, left, to Chicago in 1953.
Mayor Richard J. Daley, left, chairman of the Illinois Democratic Convention, and presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson wave before the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 17, 1956.
Richard J. Daley receives congratulations from his family as he is sworn in as the new county clerk in March 1950. With Daley are from left: Front row, Richard Daley Jr., 8; Michael, 6; Eleanor, 9; and Mary Carol, 10; rear, Patricia, 13; Daley’s wife and father.
Hizzoner, Mayor Richard J. Daley, is a fan when his Chicago preps compete, in fair weather or foul. He beams through snowflakes, his hat and overcoat bedecked with feathery – and wet – stuff which hit Soldier Field in quantity shortly after the Lane vs Fenwick Prep Bowl game began on Nov. 28, 1959, in Chicago.
The Richard J. Daley family poses for a family photo on Dec. 24, 1954. From left to right: Front row – John, 8; Michael, 11, Eleanor, Richard, 12, and Bill, 6. Back row, standing, are Mary, 10, Richard J. Daley, candidate for mayor of Chicago and Eleanor, 14.
Rocky Marciano, world heavyweight champion, gives Mayor Richard J. Daley his famed left at City Hall in 1955. Marciano was slated to referee a wrestling match later that day.
Mayor Richard J. Daley shows his wife Eleanor, left, and children how to operate a 35-ton bulldozer at Powerama on Sept. 18, 1955. The children are, starting from right of Eleanor are: Eleanor, 14; Mary Carol, 16; Richard Jr., 11; Michael, 12; John, 8 and William, 7.
Frank Lloyd Wright, left, visits with Mayor Richard J. Daley at City Hall on Oct. 6, 1956.
People picket Mayor Richard J. Daley’s house at 3536 Lowe Ave. in Bridgeport on Aug. 1, 1956. The protesters are from the Bridgeport Civic League and are campaigning against the blasting in the Material Service Corporation Quarry at 28th Street and Poplar.
The Irish painted the town green today, the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, starting with a parade of 10,000 down State Street on March 15, 1957. Mayor Richard J. Daley, center, led the procession.
“Companionship with his children is the mayor’s only hobby,” says a photo caption in a baiduhai photo from April 7, 1957. Mayor Richard J. Daley, a former second baseman for the Hamburg Athletic Club team, pitches to Billy while Mike (right) and Richard, left, stand ready to field ball.
Mayor Richard J. Daley, center, leaves after services for the Our Lady of Angels school fire victims at the National Guard Armory on Dec. 5, 1958, in Chicago. The fire at the grade school on Dec. 1, 1958, took the lives of 92 children and three nuns. It remains one of the worst tragedies in Chicago’s history.
Mayor Richard J. Daley and Queen Elizabeth at the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Chicago for dinner. The dinner was held in honor of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip during their visit on July 6, 1959.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy’s running mate, grins as a woman tries to hand a child to him at State Street and Wacker Drive during a campaign stop on Nov. 1, 1960. In the front seat of car are Mayor Richard J Daley and his wife, Eleanor.
Mayor Richard J. Daley shakes the hand of Willard Anderson of Roselle. Anderson is the first to go over the new Fullerton Avenue bridge on Sept. 21, 1961. The Commissioner of public works, George DeMent, looks on from behind. The Tribune wrote, “It recently was completed at a cost of $1,350,000. The new bridge, 277 feet long and fixed, replaces a swing bridge constructed in 1895.”
Mayor Richard J. Daley shakes hands with U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy after introducing him on Nov. 7. 1961.
Master decorator Emil Hilbert, left, watches as Mayor Richard J. Daley cuts the Chicago 125th anniversary cake delivered to City Hall on March 5, 1962. The cake, marking the 125th anniversary of city’s incorporations, was presented by Associated Retail Bakers of Greater Chicago.
Mayor Richard J. Daley, who addressed the 24th Ward political rally last night at 3604 Roosevelt Road, received a unanimous handshake from Democratic precinct captains of the ward and John Sengstacke, publisher of the Chicago Defender (fourth from left) on March 22, 1963. The precinct captains are George Collins, Curtis Foster, Harold Trammell Jr., Mark Jones and Chester Blair.
Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr. join Mayor Richard Daley, center, before a benefit concert on May 27, 1963, in Chicago.
Mrs. Eleanor Daley sent her husband, Mayor Richard J. Daley, off to work on March 17, 1964. She said today’s decision to run again would be his — though she’s “very much in favor.”
baiduhai portrait of Mayor Richard J. Daley taken on April 6, 1967.
Mayor Richard J. Daley and his wife, “Sis”, on their way to cast votes at 3509 S. Lowe Ave. in Chicago on April 4, 1967.
Mayor Richard J. Daley and his wife, “Sis”, on their way to cast votes at 3509 S. Lowe in Chicago on April 4, 1967.
Mayor Richard J. Daley and his wife, “Sis”, vote at 3509 S. Lowe in Chicago on April 4, 1967. Behind them is Richard M. Daley, their son.
Mayor Richard J. Daley and his wife, “Sis”, vote in Chicago on April 4, 1967.
Richard M. Daley, from left, John Daley, Bill Daley and Mayor Richard J. Daley attend the Prep Bowl on Nov. 30, 1968.
Eager hands reach toward President John F. Kennedy as he walks from the O’Hare terminal building with Mayor Richard J. Daley, right, on March 23, 1963. Approximately 5,000 people were at the airport to catch a glimpse of the president. A Secret Service agent is at Kennedy’s right.
President Kennedy, foreground, dedicates O’Hare International Airport on March 24, 1963, with Sen Paul Douglas, Gov. Otto Kerner and Mayor Richard J. Daley. At right are nephews of O’Hare.
Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert J. Quinn and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley on Feb. 8, 1968.
Mayor Richard J. Daley on April 1, 1969.
Mayor Richard J. Daley talks during a news conference at City Hall on March 8, 1971. Mayor Daley said that he thought the suburbs would be logical sites for public housing.
Mayor Richard J. Daley and family head off to vote on March 21, 1972, in Chicago. From left are Richard, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Eleanor, John and Michael.
Mayor Richard J. Daley listens to an argument between Alderman Keane and Despres during a City Council meeting on Feb. 9, 1972.
Commissioner Jane Byrne shares microphones in 1973 with her political mentor, Mayor Richard J. Daley.
Mayor Richard J. Daley and his wife, Eleanor in their home, Nov. 25, 1974.
Actor Chuck Connors, third from left, joined Mayor Richard J. Daley on March 16, 1974, in the St. Patrick’s Day parade on State Street.
Old Blue Eyes visited older blue eyes in September 1975. Frank Sinatra shakes hands with Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley, left, who made him an honorary citizen of the city. Sinatra, after being escorted through several thousand gaping city employees and fans at City Hall was presented with a gold medallion by Daley, whose eyes were never bluer or shinier. The mayor noted that Sinatra “has proclaimed Chicago, throughout the world, as his kind of town.”
People line up outside Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church to pay their respects to Mayor Richard J. Daley on Dec. 21, 1976.
People line up outside Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church to pay their respects to Mayor Richard J. Daley on Dec. 21, 1976.
