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Year started with a bang for mayor; Re-election, Olympics and scandals
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The warm glow of Olympic gold and a landslide victory that sealed
a place in Chicago history. The cold reality of entrenched problems
that can be ignored no longer.
Mayor Daley faced both in 2007 -- sandwiched around the 65th
birthday that made him a senior citizen.
He shook off three years of corruption scandals to earn the right
to become Chicago's longest-serving mayor. And only after his re-
election did he clean out his City Hall Cabinet, hammer out costly
contracts that...
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Dark times haunt Daley's City Hall: Regrouping after Teele resignation, contract scandals.(Brief Article)
Crain's Chicago Business
; Worker morale is low and the level of intrigue is growing within his palace guard. His plate is filled to overflowing, his stretched staff struggling to handle billions of dollars in development projects and complex agency overhauls. And those embarrassing ethical lapses? They just keep on coming.
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CITY HALL POISED FOR SHAKE-UP
Crain's Chicago Business
; Daley mulling changes, including chief of staff GREG HINZ Mayor Richard Daley is now deciding how to retool the top levels of his suddenly stressed administration. City Hall scandals, staff departures and a presumed re-election bid that's just around the political corner are combining to force
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Daley May Shelve His Plan to Move City Hall Library
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... Cook County Forest Preserve District and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Documents range from an 1837 municipal code to maps of the freight tunnels to studies of every community in the city. Experts estimate it is used by 20,000 researchers, scholars ...
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City Hall poised for shake-up. (Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to reorganize his staff)
Crain's Chicago Business
; Daley mulling changes, including chief of staff Mayor Richard Daley is now deciding how to retool the top levels of his suddenly stressed administration. City Hall scandals, staff departures and a presumed re-election bid that's just around the political corner are combining to force action within
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Daley: Clean up City Hall `pigpen'
Chicago Sun-Times
; Declaring that City Hall "should not be a pigpen," Mayor Daley said Thursday he has ordered a thorough housecleaning of city offices, from dust-covered windows to filthy floors and curtains. Daley, who has complained in recent weeks about shoddy maintenance at O'Hare Airport, said he was equally
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