CHICAGO (AP) – If Mayor Richard M. Daley surpasses his legendary father and become Chicago’s longest-serving mayor in a few years, he’s not worried about his legacy or who might play him in the movie.

“Once you start worrying about legacies, you start making decisions to make your legacy,” Daley said after trouncing two little-known challengers to win a sixth term Tuesday. “You get too caught up in this, ‘I have to write a book, I’m worried about my legacy, I’m worried about maybe a movie, a documentary. I think it’s not worth it.”

Shaking off questions about a City Hall corruption scandal, Daley coasted to victory in the nonpartisan election over Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown and William “Dock” Walls, an aide to the late Mayor Harold Washington. With 96 percent of precincts reporting early Wednesday, Daley had 311,417 votes, or 71 percent of the total, while Brown had 86,964 votes, or 20 percent, and Walls had 38,012, or 9 percent.

“I think my dad would be very proud,” Daley said.

At the end of his sixth term, Daley will have served 22 years as mayor at the end of this latest term. His father, the late Richard J. Daley, died in office after serving 21 years.

Daley’s opponents tried to make an issue of corruption and a federal investigation that began with bribes paid to city officials for trucking work and expanded to city hiring practices.

The 64-year-old Daley, who was first elected in 1989, has not been accused of wrongdoing while the investigation has snagged dozens of people, including his former patronage chief and a former city clerk. The mayor has emphasized his efforts to retool the city’s hiring system and limit fundraising, and he touted them again during his victory speech Tuesday night.

Daley’s record also includes taking over Chicago’s troubled school system in 1995 and then the Chicago Housing Authority a few years later. There’s also Millennium Park, a popular tourist destination along Michigan Avenue, and his “greening” of the city with trees and flowers.

Now, Daley is trying to lure the 2016 Summer Olympic Games to Chicago. The U.S. Olympic Committee will decide in April whether to advance Chicago or Los Angeles as the American bid city. The International Olympic Committee won’t pick the 2016 host until 2009.

“We have come a long way,” Daley said, but he added there is more to do to improve schools, public safety and neighborhoods with more affordable housing and jobs.

Daley said education would be a major priority this term, including a push to extend the school day because he says students don’t get enough time of instruction.

“How are you going to compete as a country if students are going to school less every year?” he asked.

Ann Tonjes voted for Daley, just as she has for all the 10 years she has lived in Chicago.

“There’s always going to be allegations flying around, but overall (Daley is) doing a good job,” said Tonjes, 34.

All 50 aldermanic seats in the Chicago City Council were up for re-election Tuesday and a handful of candidates were forced into runoffs April 17.

Two former aldermen convicted of graft fell short in their bid to get their jobs back: Percy Giles, who was busted in the federal Operation Silver Shovel investigation in the 1990s, and Wallace Davis Jr., convicted of extortion and taking bribes in a separate federal probe in the 1980s. Giles finished third in a crowded race and Davis was trailing far behind in his ward.

Another alderman recently charged in a federal bribery case for allegedly taking a $5,000 payoff in a bogus building scheme was bounced out of office, according to unofficial returns. Arenda Troutman, who said she has done nothing wrong, was trailing an opponent 62 percent to 32 percent with 96 percent of precincts reporting.

And Sandi Jackson, the wife of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., and daughter-in-law of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, ousted an incumbent alderman, according to unofficial returns. With 97 percent of precincts reporting, she led the incumbent 57 percent to 33 percent.