You should read Mick Dumke's full post on Mayor Daley's newfound appetite for reform over at the Reader website.  But we just have to reprint this excerpt in which he lists the various reasons why Chicagoans might have lost confidence in City Hall:

Daley's complete co-opting of the City Council, his use of patronage workers to bully opponents and win elections, the Duff scandal, the Hired Truck scandal, the illegal hiring scandal, his support for the installation of Todd Stroger as county board president, the decline of city services, the festering murder problem, the deterioration of the CTA, the deterioration of the city parks, the privatization of public space, the privatization of the public schools, the sale of the parking meters, or the use of taxpayer money to subsidize profitable corporations while the rest of us are trying to pay our property taxes or rent.

It's good to be reminded sometimes.