‘Mayor Emanuel’ Is No Sure Thing as Daley Reign Ends

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Even the chief of staff to the first U.S. president from Chicago may face challenges in trying to win the top job in a city where someone named Daley has ruled for 42 of the past 55 years.

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s announcement yesterday that he wouldn’t seek a seventh term altered the political landscape in Illinois in a shake-up that may stretch to Washington.