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Daley Thu Sep 09 2010
Mayor Daley on the Trail
Campaigns for Mayor are only memories for those of us born before the early 1980s. The 1989 campaign is only a vague memory for me--I was eight. But I do remember both of these ads.
One thing to note: after 1991, the Mayor always referred to himself in campaign material as "Mayor Daley". Not Richard M. Daley. He famously joked that he tried to teach his granddaughter to call him "Mayor" instead of "Grandpa." The man loved being Mayor of this city.
Here's a bonus: Harold Washington's hit on "Richie Daley":
