Millennium City: Richard M. Daley & Global Chicago was created by Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois Chicago Library. It draws on oral history interviews conducted from 2017-2019 by Peter Cunningham, a friend of Mayor Daley who worked for him as a speech writer.

The interviewees include most of the mayor’s chiefs of staff, some of his deputy chiefs of staff, a number of his political advisors, and persons who headed city agencies during his twenty-two year tenure (1989-2011). Also included are family members, community leaders, some critics, and former United States Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. See the complete interviews and transcripts.

The online exhibit also features photographs and other materials from the Richard M. Daley papers, the Richard J. Daley collection, and other archival collections housed at the Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois Chicago Library:

Credits

Project team

• Dan Harper, curator
• David Greenstein, curator
• Larissa Mukundwa, curator
• Allan Berry, project manager
• Ian Collins, digital exhibit coordinator
• Roberta Dupuis-Devlin, digital imaging services
• Miguel Vazquez,  digital imaging services
• Peter Cunningham, oral history interviewer
• Jennifer Goldman, research assistance
• Matt Tapia, technical assistance

With advisory support from

• Mary Case, University Librarian emerita
• Peggy Glowacki, Manuscripts librarian, Special Collections and University Archives
• Pamela Hackbart-Dean, Head, Special Collections and University Archives
• Linda Naru, Associate University Librarian for Administrative Services and Associate Dean
• Special thanks to Ion Nimerencu, Janet Swatscheno, Jeffrey Wheeler

Acknowledgments