Editing Richard J. Daley (section)

==Personal life and family==
Daley met [[Eleanor "Sis" Daley|Eleanor "Sis" Guilfoyle]] at a local ball game. He courted "Sis" for six years, during which time he finished law school and was established in his legal profession. They were married on June 17, 1936, and lived in a modest brick bungalow at 3536 South Lowe Avenue in the heavily Irish and Polish neighborhood of Bridgeport, a few blocks from his birthplace.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-011212sis-gallery-photogallery.html |title=Eleanor "Sis" Daley |website=Chicagotribune.com |date=September 15, 2014 |access-date=April 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGem2g467GAC&q=richard+j+daley+sis&pg=PT317 |title=American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation |first1=Adam |last1=Cohen |first2=Elizabeth |last2=Taylor |date=May 8, 2001 |publisher=Little, Brown |isbn=9780759524279 |access-date=April 17, 2018 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="Daley"/> They had three daughters and four sons, in that order. Their eldest son, [[Richard M. Daley]], was elected mayor of Chicago in 1989, and served in that position until his retirement in 2011. The youngest son, [[William M. Daley]], served as [[White House Chief of Staff]] under [[Barack Obama|President Barack Obama]] and as [[US Secretary of Commerce]] under [[Bill Clinton|President Bill Clinton]]. Another son, [[John P. Daley]], is a member of the [[Cook County, Illinois|Cook County]] Board of Commissioners. The other progeny has stayed out of public life. Michael Daley is a partner in the law firm Daley & George, and Mary Carol (Daley) Vanecko is a teacher, as were Patricia (Daley) Martino, who died in 2024, and Eleanor, who died in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?article_id=24671|title=Daley|website=Chicagobusiness.com|access-date=April 17, 2018}}</ref>

===Speaking style===
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Daley, who never lost his blue-collar Chicago accent, was known for often mangling his syntax and other verbal gaffes. Daley made one of his most memorable verbal missteps in 1968, while defending what the news media reported as police misconduct during that year's violent Democratic convention, stating, "Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all – the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to ''preserve'' disorder." Daley's reputation for misspeaking was such that his press secretary Earl Bush would tell reporters, "Write what he means, not what he says."<ref>{{cite news|first=William E |last=Schmidt |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DD1038F932A15751C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all# |title=Chicago Journal; Syntax Is a Loser in Mayoral Race |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A13 |date=February 2, 1989|access-date=2022-05-11}}</ref>