Post-mayoral Career
Daley signed up for a speakers bureau to give talks that could fetch tens of thousands of dollars an appearance. On June 1, 2011 the international law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced that Daley would be of counsel to the firm. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP was among the law firms to which the Mayor had no-bid awarded the City's legal work. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP negotiated the city's much-criticized long-term lease of its parking meters, and also the city's leases of the Chicago Skyway and City parking garages. On May 24, 2011 the University of Chicago Press announced Daley's appointment as a "distinguished senior fellow" at the Harris School of Public Policy. The five-year, part-time appointment includes responsibility for coordinating a guest lecture series. Daley was elected to the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company. Daley is a managing principal of Tur Partners LLC, an investment firm, where Daley's son, Patrick Daley, is a principal.
On September 28, 2011, The University of Chicago Press announced that it will publish First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley in Spring 2013. According to the publisher, the book will be the first major biography of Daley.
Daley, David Orr, and Jane Byrne are currently the only living former Mayors of Chicago.
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