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9 unusual facts about Richard J. Daley


Adolph Kiefer

In the 1960s he worked with Mayor Richard J. Daley to build swimming-pools across the inner city of Chicago, providing the facilities needed for thousands of children to learn to swim.

An Seanphobal

Richard J. Daley was the only child of Michael and Lillian (Dunne) Daley, whose families had both arrived from An tSean Phobail area during the Great Famine (Ireland).

Bee Bee Bee

Bee Bee Bee was bred by former Illinois racing commissioner William S. Miller of Chicago who dispersed his racing stable following a bribery scandal involving Chicago mayor, Richard J. Daley.

James Balcer

Balcer's ward encompasses part of Chicago's Southwest Side, and includes the neighborhood of Bridgeport, which has been home to five Chicago mayors, including both Richard M. and Richard J. Daley.

Kenneth R. Mladenka

Mladenka contributed "The Political Machine, the Urban Bureaucracy, and the Distribution of Public Services" to Chicago Politics Papers, a joint effort of the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, to study the period between the two Chicago mayors named Daley.

Nollaig Ó Gadhra

He authored several important academic works, including biographies of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Mahatma Gandhi, Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley and John Boyle O'Reilly, many of which were written in Irish.

Richard Daley

Richard J. Daley (1902–1976), Mayor of Chicago (1955–1976), father of Richard M. Daley

Richard J. Daley College

In 1977, a week after the death of Richard J. Daley, the college was renamed in honor of the late mayor.

Roy W. Hill

In 1964, the Custom Tailors Guild of America named Hill as one of America's ten best dressed men, along with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.


Beth Kelly

In March 2010, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley named Kelly head of the city's LGBT advisory council for a three-year term.

Brian M. Hughes

His father was two-term New Jersey Governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard J. Hughes.

Burton Natarus

After Washington's death and eventual replacement by Richard M. Daley, Natarus was as loyal to the son he had been to his father.

Cadence SKILL

SKILL was originally based on a flavor of Lisp called “Franz Lisp” created at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman.

Chicago Park District

The size and personnel of the park district was dramatically pared down during the reform administration of Mayor Richard M. Daley-appointed CEO Forrest Claypool in the mid-1990s.

Chicago Spire

Chicago Mayor Daley said he approved of the design, stating that it was environmentally friendly.

Chicago Temple Building

The temple is located at the southeast corner of Clark and Washington Street across from the Richard J. Daley Center which houses offices for the offices for the city of Chicago and Cook County courts and the Chicago Picasso.

Cook County Courthouse

Richard J. Daley Center, the location of the Court of Cook County, Illinois

Divvy

In 2007, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley visited Paris, France, where he personally tested out their Vélib' bicycle sharing system and was "greatly impressed".

Edward T. Hanley

Among the many notable individuals who Hanley counted among his friends were House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and former Illinois governor James R. Thompson.

Fern Persons

On July 27, 1999, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley officially declared "Fern Persons Day" to mark her 89th birthday.

First Unitarian Church of Chicago

Its first building was constructed in 1841 on what is now the site of the Picasso statue in Daley Plaza.

Gallery 37

Gallery 37 is a job training program and was created in 1991 by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs' Lois Weisberg and Maggie Daley, wife of the city's former mayor, Richard M. Daley.

George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs

David Wilhelm, Visiting Professor of Leadership and Public Affairs, has managed campaigns for President Bill Clinton, Sen. Paul Simon, Sen. Joe Biden, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Helaman

LDS leader Richard J. Maynes cited this entire episode in a General Conference as containing good examples of covenant-keeping behavior.

Jim Ferree

Ferree was born in Pinebluff, North Carolina, and grew up in Winston-Salem, where he attended Reynolds High School.

Joffrey Tower

The placement of the Joffrey Ballet in this building appears to have involved political dealings with the Mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley and his brother, William M. Daley, a co-chairman of the Joffrey board of trustees.

John J. Daley

Daley was also a candidate for presidential elector during the 1972 presidential election (Vermont was carried by Republican incumbent President Richard Nixon).

Joseph M. Keegan

Keegan lost his Senate reelection bid in 1967 after supporting an unpopular bill to provide unemployment benefits for certain striking workers, at the behest of then-Governor Richard J. Hughes.

Marion Stamps

In 1994, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley skipped a news conference on job creation; fearing facing her.

Max Predöhl

Richard J. Evans: Tod in Hamburg: Stadt, Gesellschaft und Politik in den Cholera-Jahren 1830-1910, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1996.

Nazi views on Catholicism

Richard J. Evans wrote that Hitler believed that in the long run National Socialism and religion would not be able to co-exist, and stressed repeatedly that Nazism was a secular ideology, founded on modern science: "Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition".

Nellie Fox

The group grew to as many as 600 members, including Richard M. Daley, James R. Thompson, George Will and several former MLB players.

Penelope Peterson

From May 13–16, 2009, Peterson traveled to Beijing, China with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, as part of a cultural and business exchange between the Chinese capital and the Second City.

Ratzinger Foundation

Reverend Professor Brian E. Daley, S.J., an American Jesuit who is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Richard Atkinson

Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994), British prehistorian and archaeologist

Richard Daley

Richard M. Daley (born 1942), Mayor of Chicago (1989–2011), son of Richard J. Daley

Richard Day

Richard J. F. Day (born c. 1964), professor of sociology and cultural studies at Queen's University, Canada, scholar-activist

Richard Gill

Richard J. Gill (1886–?), lumberman and political figure in New Brunswick

Richard J. Berkley

He was a popular member of the expedition evidenced by the naming of Berkley Island after him.

Richard J. Burke

He was married on October 19, 1940 to Josephina Battaglia the daughter of Carmelo Battaglia of Monte Maggiore Belsito, Palermo, Sicily, and Antonia Fasulo of Burgio, Agrigento, Sicily.

Richard J. Codey Arena

A number of coaches at ESC are Worlds and Olympic medalists such as Kay Barsdell, Oleg Bliakhman, Ken Foster and JoJo Starbuck.

Richard J. Collins

He worked on several notable programs including Bonanza, General Electric Theater, Matlock and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre.

Richard J. Gambino

In 1992 Gambino received the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award together with Praveen Chaudhari and Jerome J. Cuomo, "for the discovery of amorphous magnetic films used in magneto-optic data storage systems".

Richard J. Griffin

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Richard J. Maybury

He also states that Muslims are responsible for preserving the philosophies of ancient people, such as Aristotle.

Richard J. Mayer

Richard J. Mayer was the Principal Investigator on the projects of developing IDEF3, IDEF4 en IDEF6.

He was the lead engineer during the development of the information and data modeling methods IDEF1 and IDEF1X while at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

Richard J. Miller

Dick was graduated, A.B from Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan and earned an A.M. degree from Michigan State University.

Richard J. Phelps

In 1988, Phelps ran in a special election for the office of Dane County, Wisconsin County Executive against Joe Wineke.

Richard J. Tonry

Tonry was elected as a Democrat to the 74th United States Congress, holding office from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1937.

Richard J. Welch

Welch was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lawrence J. Flaherty.

Rosemary Forbes Kerry

She married Richard John Kerry, in Montgomery, Alabama on February 8, 1941, and was the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the 2004 candidate for President of the United States.

Shirley Wilson

Prior to coaching at Elon, he coached football at Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

William M. Daley

Daley was photographed in the White House Situation Room photograph taken on May 1, 2011 by Pete Souza.


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