A two-time Daley chief-of-staff, Forrest Claypool draws on his long career in local government to examine the lasting successes, ongoing dramas, and disastrous failures that defined Daley's twenty-two years in City Hall. Throughout, Claypool uses Daley's career to illustrate how effectual political leadership relies on an adept and unapologetic use of power—and how wielding that power without challenge inevitably pulls government toward corruption.
A warts-and-all account of a pivotal figure in Chicago history, The Daley Show tells the story of how Richard M. Daley became the quintessential big city mayor.
|Foreword
Prologue
Ascent
Chapter 1. Tumult
Chapter 2. Alone
Chapter 3. Torture
First Term
Chapter 4. Campaign
Chapter 5. Wins
Chapter 6. Quality of Life
Second Term
Chapters 7. Downtown
Chapter 8. Black Swans
Chapter 9. Airport Wars
Chapter 10. Neighborhoods
Chapter 11. Ghost Towns
Chapter 12. Broken Windows
Third Term
Chapter 13. Go West
Chapter 14. Anchors
Chapter 15. Takeover
Chapter 16. Northerly Island
Chapter 17. Legend
Chapter 18. Gangs and Guns
Fourth Term
Chapter 19. Revolution Stalled
Chapter 20. Expansion
Chapter 21. Razing Hell
Chapter 22. Betrayal
Chapter 23. Millennium Park
Fifth Term
Chapter 24. Deadly Silos
Chapter 25. Scandal
Chapter 26. Hiring Fraud
Chapter 27. Renaissance 2010
Chapter 28. Empire's Edge
Chapter 29. Succession
Chapter 30. Cops on Dots
Sixth Term
Chapter 31. Two Systems
Chapter 32. Transformation
Chapter 33. Phenomenon
Chapter 34. Parking Meters
Chapter 35. Olympics
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Photographs and illustrations follow pages 104 and 190.
|"Claypool takes us behind the curtain at City Hall to show how and why so much actually got done during Rich Daley's twenty-two years in office. Not 'gets done,' for Daley-style coalition building and vote counting have become lost arts of late, too often replaced by virtue signaling and showoff crusading. Instead RMD cut subtle deals with GOP governors and presidents, with labor leaders and minority contractors, even tacitly with the Mob. Claypool's is a warts-and-all account, with duds like Daley's closing of Meigs Field or parking meter give-away getting as much attention as his triumphs. Consider a reborn Navy Pier, expanded airport and convention trade, street beautification, Millennium Park and, most impressive of all, his federally funded replacement of blighted and inhumane public housing high-rises. Rarely have...