Here's the latest work by @ChiElections: the 1955 mayoral election won by Richard J. Daley. From '55 until his death in 1976, Daley led the most powerful, resilient, and infamous urban political machine in the postwar U.S. /1 As mayor and chair of the Cook County Democratic Organization (the machine's formal name), Daley was a force in the national party. Locally, his skillful shepherding of ambitious public works and private development projects gave Chicago a reputation as "the city that works." /2