Richard J. Daley

CTL-E-1180 · Person · unspecified

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Mayor of Chicago during the expressway-building era, the 1966 Freedom Movement, and the 1968 riots, when he authorized 'shoot to kill' orders against arsonists.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:daley; source research type(s): person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Wikipedia — 'King assassination riots'; Graduate Institute — 'The (Express)Way to Segregation' (2025)

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