Obama praises Mayor Daley; gift from National Archives

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President Obama praised Mayor Daley while he was in Chicago taping Oprah’s show and gifted the departing mayor with an 1834 survey of Chicago from the National Archives. The Sun-Times Abdon M. Pallasch has the report here.

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