His strongest potential challengers have already declined to run against him. So after announcing officially, on December nth, that he will run for a sixth term as Chicago's mayor, Richard Daley seems pretty certain to stay in the job that he has held since a special election in 1989. If he wins another four-year term-and can steer clear of bad health and federal prosecutors long enough to complete it—he will become the longest-serving mayor in Chicago's history. The current record belongs to Mr Daley's father, also called Richard, a legendary American political boss who ruled the city from 1955 until he died in office in 1976.
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