[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 18510-18511]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    TRIBUTE TO MRS. MAGGIE DALEY, FIRST LADY OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Davis) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. On Monday, November 28, 2011, the City of 
Chicago laid to rest the wife of Chicago's longest serving mayor, Mayor 
Richard M. Daley.
  While Maggie Daley was known as the mayor's wife, she was, indeed, a 
well-known, well-liked and revered personality in her own right. Maggie

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Daley played the role of matriarch. She was warm, graceful, elegant, 
eloquent, and easy to like. She was a patron of the arts and was fully 
steeped in the cultural affairs of our city.
  While Mrs. Daley has received accolades for many of her activities, 
the one which strikes me the most is her involvement in a program 
called After School Matters. I think that anyone who knows anything 
about education and youth development knows that, yes, after school 
does, indeed, matter. When discussing this program, you could see 
Maggie Daley's eyes light up, and you could feel her passion. She 
seemed to know everything there was to know about the program. She knew 
program sites, personnel, special features and activities, benefits and 
successes. After a session of listening to Mrs. Daley explain and 
advocate for this program, I would often smile and say to myself, How 
could anyone not be in support of this great program?
  So I say thanks to a great lady--a lady of grace, a lady of dignity, 
a lady of passion, a lady of faith, and a lady of action.
  My family and I and residents of the Seventh Congressional District 
of Illinois express condolences to Mayor Richard M. Daley and to all of 
Maggie Daley's family. She was a great first lady of our city and 
performed her role to perfection. After school does matter. It mattered 
to Mrs. Maggie Daley, and it matters to all of America.

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