Building the City of SpectacleBy the time he left office on May 16, 2011, Mayor Richard M. Daley had served six terms and more than twenty two years at the helm of Chicago's City Hall, making him the longest serving mayor in the city's history. Richard M. Daley was the son of the legendary machine boss, Mayor Richard J. Daley, who had presided over the city during the postWorld War II urban crisis. Richard M. Daley led a period of economic restructuring after that difficult era by