Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, December 28, 2016.
Book explores how Mayor Richard M. Daley turned Chicago into the “city of spectacle”
A new book, Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago, cowritten by UIC political science professor Dennis R. Judd, explores how Daley rehabbed the city’s image with Millennium Park, the Museum Campus, and Navy Pier, making it into a popular tourist destination. Daley is also great example of how to use leadership and mayoral power in a big city, according to the authors. “Richard M. Daley shows just how much a creative urban leader can get done even when the political environmental or economic circumstance does not seem to be promising,” Spirou told CityLab. “When Daley came to office, Chicago was still mired in a protracted period of turmoil. Racial tensions were high, and few people expected that the situation could be quickly changed.” [CityLab]
