Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced Tuesday that he will not run for re-election in 2011, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
During a short news conference at City Hall, the mayor said he would not run for re-election:
"The truth is I have been thinking about this for the past several months," Daley said, according to the Chicago Tribune. "In the end this is a personal decision, no more, no less." (WATCH Daley's announcement and read a full transcript of his speech here. )
Daley's approval ratings have fallen in recent years. A Tribune poll earlier this summer found only 37 percent of city voters approved of the job Daley was doing as mayor. But his decision could be linked to his wife's battle with cancer.
Maggie Daley was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2002, and this spring doctors discovered that it spread to her liver and lung. She also underwent surgery in March for bone cancer in her leg, the Sun-Times reports.
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