Eleanor "Sis" Daley, born Eleanor "Sis" Guilfoyle, (March 4, 1907-February 16, 2003) was the wife of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley and the mother of the current mayor Richard M. Daley. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) was an Irish-American politician who served as Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee from 1953 and Mayor of Chicago from 1955, retaining both positions until his death in 1976. ... Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) has been Mayor of Chicago since 1989. ...

Born in the Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport in 1907 as Eleanor Guilfoyle to an Irish family, she met the future mayor Richard J. Daley in the late 1920's and after a long courtship they married on June 17, 1936. The Daleys lived in a modest brick bungalow at 3536 South Lowe Street in Bridgeport. They had three daughters and four sons, in that order. Their eldest son, Richard M. Daley, was elected mayor of Chicago in 1989, and has served in that position ever since. The youngest son, William M. Daley, served as US Secretary of Commerce from 1997-2000. Another son, John P. Daley, is a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Bridgeport is the name of a number of places in the United States of America: Bridgeport, Alabama Bridgeport, California Bridgeport, Chicago Bridgeport, Connecticut - by far the largest city with this name Bridgeport, Illinois Bridgeport, Michigan Bridgeport, Ohio Bridgeport, New Jersey Bridgeport, Pennsylvania Bridgeport, Washington Bridgeport, West Virginia See also: Bridgeport... June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) has been Mayor of Chicago since 1989. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... William Daley was United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton. ... The office of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the mid-20th century. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... John P. Daley is the son of Richard J. Daley, brother of Richard M. Daley and William M. Daley. ... Cook County is the name of several counties in the United States: Cook County, Georgia Cook County, Illinois Cook County, Minnesota Cooke County, Texas This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

During her husband's tenure as mayor she was fiercly protective of him and on one occassion was rumored to have turned copies in a bookstore of the unflattering 1971 biography of her husband, Boss by Mike Royko. She was known as a loving mother and homemaker to both her own family and to the people of the city of Chicago, it was said that although her husband was the mayor outside she controlled everything inside their house. In her later years as a widow and especially during her son's tenure as mayor she became something of a matriarch of Chicago, in fact her birthday of March 4th happens to be the same as the anniversary of the incorporation of the city. She attended events to honor her late husband at the University of Illinois at Chicago, such as the dedication of the university library named after him in 1999 and on the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2002. Mrs. Daley died on February 16, 2003 in her Bridgeport home of a stroke at the age of 95 as her son was running for a fifth term as mayor. 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Mike Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a long-running newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois. ... The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a public, state-supported research university. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...