Chicago Mayor-for-life Daley Announces Retirement

[Tom_Scud]

I guess this is technically 2011 (the election is in February).

Here’s the AP story, which lists Rahm Emmanuel and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart as candidates.

Dart came to national attention for suspending evictions in October, 2008. From wikipedia:

In October 2008, Dart made national news when he announced that he was suspending all foreclosure evictions in Cook County.[2] The number of such evictions had increased dramatically since 2006 as a result of the national subprime mortgage crisis. Dart stated that many of the people being evicted were renters who had faithfully paid their rent but had not known that their landlord was in financial trouble. He explained that in many cases, mortgage companies had not fulfilled their obligation to identify tenants in the foreclosed properties, and said, “These mortgage companies only see pieces of paper, not people, and don’t care […] who gets hurt along the way … We’re not going to do their jobs for them anymore. We’re just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today.”[3]

The Illinois Bankers Association was critical of Dart, accusing him of “ignoring his legal responsibilities” and of engaging in “vigilantism”. [3]

Dart says that he is enforcing an Illinois state law which requires the banks to determine whether the persons resident at an address are actually the persons to whom the foreclosure notice should be served.[4]

[Claverhouse]

Are there no other Daleys in Chicago ? Willing and determined to do their traditional duty ?

[CaveMike]

Another thread on this.