Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, May 1, 2017.
There’s no picture of Richard M. Daley on City Hall’s wall of mayors
Former mayor Richard M. Daley, the city’s longest-serving mayor, is missing from the wall of mayors in City Hall. His picture has still not been hung on the wall of the fifth-floor mayor’s office reception area along with the other former Chicago mayors. There’s even a picture of Cook County clerk David Orr, who was mayor for eight days in the 1980s. Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office says it’s just a logistical issue. “There’s been an effort to have a larger ceremony,” the mayor’s communications director Adam Collins told the Sun-Times. “We wanted to put together an event that would honor his service to the city just the same way that we named Maggie Daley park in honor of Maggie Daley’s contributions to the city and hadn’t been able to arrange that.” [Sun-Times]
