Question

Describe and characterize Richard M. Daley's terms of office? What were the strengths and accomplishments of his regime? What were the failures and weaknesses of his administration? How would you characterize the mayorality of Richard M Daley? What was his significance as a mayor in your point of view.

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Explanation:

During his Mayor tenure, Daley developed tourism, supervise the construction of Millennium Park. He also increased environmental efforts and the rapid development of the city's central business district downtown and took control of the Chicago Public Schools are the accomplishments of Richard M. Daley.

Richard M. Daley's weakness is that he can't take bold decisions in order to prevent benefitting his friends and family to take advantage of his mayor-ship. Daley received criticism from people when his family, personal friends, and political allies disproportionately benefited from city contracting. He took charge of the city with surplus annual budget but left the city with massive budget deficits. He done privatization of government assets which temporarily reduced budgetary shortfalls but this practice removed future sources of revenue. His tenure of Mayor-ship is not good because his actions leads to bad economic condition of the Chicago.