Eleanor Daley

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Eleanor Daley was the wife of Richard J. Daley.

Eleanor "Sis" Daley (Monday, March 4, 1907 – Sunday, February 16, 2003), born Eleanor Guilfoyle, Sis was the wife of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley and the mother of former mayor Richard M. Daley.

Born in the South Side Chicago Community Area 61 New City neighborhood of Canaryville in 1907 as Eleanor Guilfoyle to a large Irish family, she met Richard J. Daley at a local ball game. Her brother, Floyd Guilfoyle, who was a friend of Daley's, introduced the couple. Their first date was attending a Chicago White Sox game. "Sis" was a graduate of Saint Mary High School and was a secretary at a local paint company. After a six-year-long courtship, during which her future husband finished law school, they married on Wednesday, June 17, 1936. The Daleys lived in a modest brick bungalow at 3536 S. Lowe Street, close to where both had grown up.

Sis and Richard had three daughters and four sons, in that order. Their eldest son, Richard M. Daley, was mayor of Chicago from 1989 through 2011. The youngest son, William M. Daley, served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1997-2000. Another son, John P. Daley, is a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.