Chicago Magazine Compares '83 Daley with Mayor Daley

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There is going to be a lot of reflection on Mayor Daley's legacy in the months leading up to that day in May when he says farewell to the Fifth Floor. But how about looking back at how 1983 vintage Cook County State's Attorney Richard Daley would have campaigned for the office. Chicago Magazine did, complete with some interesting audio clips on where '83 Daley stood on public transportation, education, campaign spending, unemployment and the city budget.

What's interesting in the piece, besides the clips that were pulled from debates Daley participated in at the time, are the parallels between the Chicago of 28 years ago and now. In many ways, we're facing the same issues now as then, only on a magnified scale.