European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Chicago Myor Richard j. Daisy tacked by portrait of himself during Campaign speech in 1975. A died a year later. Page 14 the stars and stripes Chicago s Dai Beirut by James Latke associated presso n a blustery Ark Moon us Over 10 years ago live doctors Laboured Iran locally but Futi Fify Over one very import enl Man s or sell. His heart the heart thai moved the City of big should cos. Was lading. This City his City was fading in some important ays As Well. But Bond brokers did i look past Iho shimmering downtown towers did t see slums and segregation As reasons enough to put a City on the critical Lis. New York was mailing certainly. A glance Al Iho financial pages of his newspapers that very morning Doc 20. 1976 proved hat Cleveland was tailing Detroit Loo but not Chicago not Iho mythical City thai works not so it showed not so Long As Richard Joseph Daley s 74-year old heart still beat. Today Daley s legacy is Manifest across this uly of diverse neighbourhoods from the proud and provable Skyline and gleaming boulevards of downtown and Ihn Gold coast ii oriere tic social and economic and corporate elite reside to the Gra Titi scarred and sometimes deadly housing projects of the South and West sides. On the North Side and along other pockets of Prosperity where Daley invested Consi Dorable Federal Money to quiet Tho Lew aldermen that made up his meager City Council opposition in Obj to do Young singles and couples continue the gents fiction push. Bui nowhere is his legacy More apparent than in the working class enclaves of modest Homes and neat lawns away from the Busy commercial strips where ethnics Irish polos and germans cling stubbornly to Middle class dream they Are Par of to reason int inc City s parochial school system became Tho nation s largest growing first because of diverse ethnic needs but evolving since into an Aller native to the Public schools Daley so badly neglected he could be nearsighted and far looking on the same Issue. By thai Winter Day he died. Daley had Boon mayor 21 years and chairman of the Cook county democratic Central committee Tor two cais longer than that Wea finry both hats he still sat squarely behind Trio the is of a powerful and ruthless political machine if All Ivas nol it i in his kingdom it still appeared better off than most construction cranes loomed on the horizons 11aT ran on Lime garbage Gol picked up. Short thick and even  Daley could Point irom oly Hall in almost any direction and say defiantly the a Perl s Aiea l saying our ides Haio become Uraj Vernable whal the hell do Tho experts know g Yang temples pulsing glasses sometimes sliding Down Iho Bridge of his nose Daley never passed up the Chance to answer his critics even if he did so a grammatically and with Malaprop isms enough to ill a record album which is precisely whal Ono rep Oder used Miriem for. Responding to charges that his police used excessive Force of quell demons rations a Iho 1968 democratic National convention. Daley i owned perhaps his most famous Relora get the thing straight once and Lor All the police Are not Here to create Rii Orcier the police Are hero to preserve disorder " flu a Daley wan she a sift chairmanship in 1953, no inherited the democratic machine mayor Anton  Tony Chernuk cemented with patronage Pas tvo than 20 years Curbar. Bui Altor capturing the mayor Mico  years Laler. Daley strengthened that machine and sustained it Long alter Ether big City alliances Siad Curnc undone saturday j