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FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley poses with the city skyline behind him after a press conference in Chicago. Current mayor Rahm Emanuel, is intent on fixing what ails the nation’s third-largest city. Emanuel, once nicknamed “Rahmbo” for his fierce political maneuvering, last week announced an agreement with several unions to help bail out the nation’s worst-funded city pension systems, a festering problem he inherited from Daley. Emanuel’s staff often notes the pension shortfall is the handiwork of the Daley administration, which failed for years to make enough contributions to the retirement funds for city laborers, police, firefighters and teachers. It was a problem rarely mentioned as Daley built a reputation for having modernized and beautified “the city that works,” and having saved it from the woeful fate of other Rust Belt cities. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley poses with the city skyline behind him after a press conference in Chicago. Current mayor Rahm Emanuel, is intent on fixing what ails the nation’s third-largest city. Emanuel, once nicknamed “Rahmbo” for his fierce political maneuvering, last week announced an agreement with several unions to help bail out the nation’s worst-funded city pension systems, a festering problem he inherited from Daley. Emanuel’s staff often notes the pension shortfall is the handiwork of the Daley administration, which failed for years to make enough contributions to the retirement funds for city laborers, police, firefighters and teachers. It was a problem rarely mentioned as Daley built a reputation for having modernized and beautified “the city that works,” and having saved it from the woeful fate of other Rust Belt cities. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)

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