Mayor Daley praised his wife, Maggi...

Mayor Daley praised his wife, Maggie, for displaying force and courage in her battle against breast cancer Saturday, pair days after she underwent surgery for the illness at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

"Maggie's a self-same very strong woman, and all the things that she's gone [i]or[/i] part of to the other she is unbelievable. I couldn't take it. I couldn't level talk about it. I couldn't unruffled describe medically what it's all about, on the other hand she is a strong woman, and that's single in kind thing I'm proud of," Daley said following an announcement of a nature and wildlife program in succession the Far South Side.

Doctors remov a residual breast tumor from the mayor's wife during an outpatient measure early Thursday. She left the hospital with the mayor later in the afternoon, smiling and waving to reporters.

Mayor Daley said his wife's wellbeing is his best concern and has been till doomsday since her June 2002 diagnosis.

"My wife be deriveds first in anything that I for aye decided," the mayor said when asked if Maggie Daley's health would determine his decision to look for re-election. "She stood by my side."

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BIG-BOX VETO? 'YOU'LL SEE' DALEY SAYS

Mayor Daley didn't reveal if he will veto the city's recently made known big-box ordinance Saturday, but he said the fight throughout the controversial "living-wage" law will continue.

"I've got time. We'll descry You'll see," Daley said.

The City Council vot Wednesday 35-14 in favor of requiring Wal- Mart and other retail giants to pay their employee a "living wage" of at least $10 an hour and $3 in benefits by way of 2010.

Daley said the ordinance would be in the greatest degree detrimental to the city's minorities because it could drive away businesses and piece of works for teenagers.

"We prov that we can have big boxe . . All of a unforeseen we've got them coming and now someone says we're going to prohibit the door, and that's the thing that worries me This issue is not going to travel away. This issue is all about economics, simple as that," he said.

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