The office of the Mayor is a f*cking valuable thing. Don't forget that.

Mordis: The office of the Mayor is a f*cking valuable thing. Don't forget that.

Over in six.

Available on your Kindle this spring:

Why I Could Pull It Off and Blago Couldn't: A Political Corruption How-To

Hope you are ready for Mayor Jesse Jackson Jr.

Daley may be my favorite iron-fisted dictator of all-time.

Quitter.

He's quitting because the city is broke financially, and he has come to the conclusion that he cannot sell Lake Michigan to a private company.

don't let the door hit you on the way out

Car_Ramrod: Before the hate begins, I just wanna say I liked Mayor Daley, and his midnight-bulldozing ways. While his administration was/is the definition of corruption, I truly feel he loves Chicago and wants the best for it.

Well said, sums my sentiments up quite adequately.

The streets get plowed and the trash gets picked up. The schools on the other hand... Oh boy.

Sounds like a golden opportunity for me, folks.

WhyteRaven74: Daley did quite a lot of good things. Like providing benefits for gay and lesbian partners of city employees, and doing it by using his power as mayor to make such changes on his own. And he did it out of the blue, one day there was an announcement and that was it. No build up, nothing.

Be thankful the Tyrant passed rules you liked.

Imagine if he had forbade employment of gays and lesbians, or forbade their free association. Such are the vagaries of living under a tyrant.

Somebody must have something on him.

Awea: Hope you are ready for Mayor Jesse Jackson Jr.

NO

Fark It: Philip Francis Queeg: I really thought that Daley would leave office the same way his father did.

The fight to replace him will be entertaining in the extreme. There is no heir apparent and no one has a political organization or base that is independent of Daley.



I know he's a Republican, but he would still win.

Delay's son may be ready to run for mayor...

Then again, Oprah Winfrey is retiring from her television show next year which could set the stage for a mayoral campaign and then a Presidential Campaign in 2020. Aaron McGruder was right all along.

Fark It: Philip Francis Queeg: I really thought that Daley would leave office the same way his father did.

The fight to replace him will be entertaining in the extreme. There is no heir apparent and no one has a political organization or base that is independent of Daley.



I know he's a Republican, but he would still win.

Yeah in '86. Today, not so much.

globalwarmingpraiser: Just when Harry Dresden dies Daley quits. You would think he would be happy with the lowering of property damage and getting Murphy out of Special Investigations.

/Sorry for the Changes Spoilers.

So much win!

Adolf Oliver Nipples: Good riddance. Special thanks go to the Supreme Court for their decision in McDonald that made him go completely apoplectic, thus making him quit before another gun case comes along and finishes him off. It's not too late for that, is it?

It has nothing to do with McDonald v. Chicago. Like another poster mentioned, the city is broke but a lot of Chicago residents still have a hard time wrapping their minds around that. They don't want to think about it and don't want to concern themselves with it, hoping it magically it fixes itself.

Daley's ratings started seriously plummeting when he leased all of the parking meters to a private company for 99 years to plug a budget hole. All that money is already gone and it's been barely a year. But the parking rates went up 4x and every Chicagoan who had to park his car at a meter in the last 12 months muttered under his breath as he swiped his/her credit card: "farking Daley" - he lost the vote of just about every person who owns a car in this town.

There are other things - Meigs field is not one of them however, that was a long time ago and he was enjoying 70% ratings well after that. On top of the things I mentioned earlier, the other several things are a $1B O'Hare Expansion for which there is no money, the incessant leasing of city infrastructure (Skyway, all city parking garages, Midway airport [though the Midway lease failed]) and finally Daley's giant slush fund from all the TIF money he has been skimming from property taxes for the past 15 years. There's around a $1 billion in it, pretty much completely unaccountable.

It's an understatement to say that just about every Chicagoan with a passing interest on their city works is leaping for joy at this news.

Fark It: Awea: Fark It: Philip Francis Queeg: I really thought that Daley would leave office the same way his father did.

The fight to replace him will be entertaining in the extreme. There is no heir apparent and no one has a political organization or base that is independent of Daley.



I know he's a Republican, but he would still win.

Yeah in '86. Today, not so much.

So, not from Illinois?

Very much so.
Ditka is a has been.

/Was at Daley plaza watching the Bears on the outside big screen, when they won it.
//lawn off it.

hockeychick: bubblytoes: Somebody must have something on him.

I don't think so. His wife is real sick and I think he wants to spend her final years with her.

The only way Daley would leave that job is in a casket, sick wife or not. He knows he has a very real chance of losing next election so he would rather leave on his terms than being run out of town in disgrace.

Car_Ramrod: Before the hate begins, I just wanna say I liked Mayor Daley, and his midnight-bulldozing ways. While his administration was/is the definition of corruption, I truly feel he loves Chicago and wants the best for it.

fark YOU. YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH CHICAGO!

You are the reason we had to pay millions to victims of torture at the hands of police. Your blind eye is why tax dollars are used to grease the palms of everything. You are the reason fraud and waste abound. You are why we have a 10% sales tax, you're why we are understaffed by 2000 officers, you're why there are street cameras on every corner recording our every move.

Every cocksucker like you is why I am leaving this corrupt shiathole of a state. We as citizens DESERVE better than that.

Paris1127: Awea: Hope you are ready for Mayor Jesse Jackson Jr.

I don't know what's worse: that or Mayor Todd Stroger. Or a Republican.

Yeah Stroger would be bad. Real bad.

McManus_brothers: I'm betting on Rahm Emanuel, myself. Although a Ditka administration would be f*cking epic.

He has a good shot, but I still think it will be JJ jr.

halfof33: Aquadyne: Daley's ratings started seriously plummeting when he leased all of the parking meters to a private company for 99 years to plug a budget hole. All that money is already gone and it's been barely a year.

The real problem with that deal is that got absolutely farked. Everytime they close a street, they got to pay the farkers they leased the meters to.

Parade? Fark you, pay me.
Street sweeping? Fark you, pay me.
Road repairs? fark you, pay me.

Yeah, it was colossally stupid. I groaned when I first heard of the idea but I figured no one would be stupid enough to actually go through with it. The financial math disfavored Chicago so obviously. A year later, LAZ Parking is putting up credit card machines on the street: "farkING DALEY"

Savoir-Faire: Car_Ramrod: Before the hate begins, I just wanna say I liked Mayor Daley, and his midnight-bulldozing ways. While his administration was/is the definition of corruption, I truly feel he loves Chicago and wants the best for it.

fark YOU. YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH CHICAGO!

You are the reason we had to pay millions to victims of torture at the hands of police. Your blind eye is why tax dollars are used to grease the palms of everything. You are the reason fraud and waste abound. You are why we have a 10% sales tax, you're why we are understaffed by 2000 officers, you're why there are street cameras on every corner recording our every move.

Every cocksucker like you is why I am leaving this corrupt shiathole of a state. We as citizens DESERVE better than that.

Yes, because only Illinois is having a financial issue.

Q-Why did he tear up the airport?
A-Terrorism. Because everyone knows it's easier to drive your bomb through downtown then load it on a plane and then fly it back into downtown.

Q-Why did he seal up the freight tunnels?
A-Terrorism. Again everyone knows the easiest thing to do is assemble your bomb in a tunnel and then carry it downtown.

Clearly he watched too many spy movies.... Or did he???