Daley’s Son to Run for Mayor

Prosecutor Richard M. Daley, who has one of the most recognizable names in big-city politics, today announced that he will seek the mayor’s chair that his father occupied for more than two decades.

Daley, 46, was elected last month to his third term as Cook County state’s attorney. His father, Richard J. Daley, served as Chicago mayor from 1955 until his death in 1976 and also controlled the once powerful machinery of the Cook County Democratic Party. Four mayors and more than a decade later, the office is up for grabs in an election scheduled to fill the remainder of the second term of Mayor Harold Washington, who died Nov. 25, 1987.