Editing Richard M. Daley (section)

==== Failed Olympic bid ====
{{Main|Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics}}
In 2007, Daley entered into ten-year contracts with the city's labor unions to preclude labor unrest as Chicago launched a bid to host the [[2016 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite news |title=City of Chicago is urged to get rid of 200 truck drivers who loaf; Inspector general says Chicago could save $18 million a year, but union contract makes firings unlikely |date=March 30, 2011 |first=Hal |last=Dardick |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/03/30/city-of-chicago-is-urged-to-get-rid-of-200-truck-drivers-who-loaf/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Daley cites union contract in truckers paid to sit around |first=Fran |last=Spielman |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |date=April 1, 2011 |url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/4615020-418/daley-blames-predecessors-for-18-million-trucker-salaries-that-watchdog-called-waste.html}}</ref> For months in 2009, Daley promoted the economic benefits of the proposal to the city and its corporate community. Many thought the games would be a capstone of Daley's career.<ref name=daleys22/><ref name=dream/> On October 2, 2009, in a major disappointment for Daley, Chicago was the first of four finalists to be eliminated during selection ceremonies in [[Copenhagen]].<ref name=daleys22/><ref name=dream/> According to a March 2011 report from the city's Office of the [[Inspector General]],

<blockquote>By signing a 10-year (contract) with the [[Teamsters]] (and with over 30 other unions representing city employees), the current administration and City Council unduly hamstrung not only the current management of city government, but the next six years of management as well, a period that extends well beyond the elected terms of the incoming administration and City Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inspector General Releases Review on Efficiency of Motor Truck Driver Job Duties |date=March 30, 2011 |url=http://chicagoinspectorgeneral.org/publications-and-press/inspector-general-releases-review-on-efficiency-of-motor-truck-driver-job-duties/ |publisher=Office of the Inspector General of the City of Chicago |access-date=January 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920021804/http://chicagoinspectorgeneral.org/publications-and-press/inspector-general-releases-review-on-efficiency-of-motor-truck-driver-job-duties/ |archive-date=September 20, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref></blockquote>