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. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois Counties Cook, DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area    - City 606. ... Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) was the longest-serving mayor of Chicago. ... Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) is a United States politician, powerful member of the national and local Democratic Party and current mayor of Chicago, Illinois. ...

Born in the south side Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport in 1907 as Eleanor Guilfoyle to an Irish family, she met Richard J. Daley in the late 1920s, and after a long courtship they married on June 17, 1936. The Daleys lived in a modest brick bungalow at 3536 South Lowe Street, close to where both had grown up. 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. South Side Irish is the term that refers to the large Irish-American community on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. ... 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) is a United States politician, powerful member of the national and local Democratic Party and current mayor of Chicago, Illinois. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was 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) was 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 and Eleanor Sis Daley, brother of Richard M. Daley and William M. Daley. ... Cook County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. ...

"Sis" Daley was a quiet woman who seldom spoke out on political matters. One exception was her criticism of "Boss", the 1971 Mike Royko biography of Mayor Daley portraying the mayor in an unfavorable light. Always fiercely protective of her husband and family, her criticism of the book led to one local retailer leaving the book off its shelves. In 1972, developers had obtained the city's tentative approval of a proposal to tear down the old Chicago Public Library downtown and replace it with a modern office tower. Asked her view of the proposal by a Chicago Tribune reporter, Sis Daley observed that she had used the library as a child, and said of the demolition, "I don't think that would be nice." Soon thereafter, a city commission unanimously voted down the project. Mike Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a long-running newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Chicago Public Library consists of 80 branches (as of March 2006) throughout the city of Chicago, Illinois, USA. History Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago. ... The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Of his wife, the mayor told the press that "She doesn't speak for me and I don't speak for her. She is able to speak for herself very well, whatever she has on her mind." It was said that although her husband may have controlled every aspect of the city's government, "Sis" 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 4 happens to also be the anniversary of the incorporation of the city. She attended events to honor her late husband at the University of Illinois at Chicago, including the dedication of the university library named after him in 1999 and on the centenary of his birth in 2002. Mrs. Daley died on February 16, 2003 in her Bridgeport home of a stroke 16 days shy of her 96th birthday as her son was running for a fifth term as mayor. 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. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 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. ...