Millennium City: Richard M. Daley & Global Chicago explores the efforts of Mayor Richard M. Daley to meet local needs and fulfill Chicago’s aspirations to be a global city. The exhibit was created by Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library. 

This online exhibit 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 friends, family members, and former colleagues of the mayor. A couple critics are also included. The 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 at Chicago Library:

• The online exhibit also features scans of materials from the following collections:
• Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety records
• Chicago Board of Trade records, part 2
• Daley, Richard J. papers
• Daley, Richard M. papers
• Hollenbach Sausage Company records
• Kondor, Laszlo photograph collection
• Natarus, Burton papers

Acknowledgments

This exhibit is made possible by [note: McCormick funds?], [note: Daley family funds?????]

Credits

• David Greenstein, curator.
• Larissa Mukundwa, curator.
• Dan Harper, curator.
• Allan Berry, role.
• Tracy Seneca, role.
• Ian Collins, role.
• Jennifer Goldman, role.
• Matt Tapia, technical assistance.
• Peggy Glowacki, manuscripts librarian.
• Pamela Hackbart-Dean, chair, special collections and university archives.
• Mary M. Case, University Librarian.
• Peter Cunningham, oral history interviewer.

Additional resources about Richard M. Daley and the Daley family 

Online resources

• Daley family collections research guide
• Richard J. Daley Era Photographs
• Richard J. Daley Oral History collection [PDF transcripts]
• Richard M. Daley Oral History collection [videos and transcripts] [note: pending as of April 2, 2020]
• Remembering Richard J. Daley online exhibit
• UIC Special Collections and University Archives finding aids (and How to search finding aids)
• Explore Chicago Collections

Holdings at UIC Special Collections and University Archives

The collections are open to the public in the Special Collections and University Archives reading room at UIC’s Richard J. Daley Library. For more information, please see the Daley family collections research guide.

• Bilandic, Michael A. papers
• Bush, Earl (Richard J. Daley) papers
• Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety records
• Chicago Board of Trade records, part 2
• Curry, Richard (Richard J. Daley papers)
• Daley, Richard J. papers
• Daley, Richard J. Ephemera collection
• Daley, Richard J. Oral History collection
• Daley, Richard M. papers
• Daley, Richard M. Ephemera collection
• Daley, Richard M. Oral History collection [note: pending as of April 2, 2020]
• Daley, William M. papers
• For Chicago (Richard J. Daley) records
• Independent Democratic Coalition records
• Kennelly, Martin H. papers
• Kondor, Laszlo (Richard J. Daley and Richard M. Daley) photograph collection
• Smith, Matt (Richard M. Daley) papers

Works consulted for this online exhibit

Bennett, Larry. "The Mayor among His Peers: Interpreting Richard M. Daley." In The city, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Edited by Dennis R. Judd and Dick W. Simpson. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Pages 242-72.

Bennett, Larry. The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Chicago Sun-Times. Selected articles.

Chicago Tribune. Selected articles.

Daley, Richard J., collection. University of Illinois at Chicago Library.

Daley, Richard M., papers. University of Illinois at Chicago Library.

Daley, Richard M., Oral History collection. University of Illinois at Chicago Library.

Daley, William M., papers. University of Illinois at Chicago Library.

Diamond, Andrew J. Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.

Gilfoyle, Timothy, J. Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Green, Paul Michael, and Melvin G. Holli. The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.

Hollenbach Sausage Company records, University of Illinois at Chicago Library.

Koeneman, Keith. First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Kondor, Laszlo, Photograph collection. University of Illinois at Chicago Library.

Longworth, Richard. Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2008.

Natarus, Burton papers, University of Illinois at Chicago Library.

Renn, Aaron M. “The Lessons of Long-term Privatizations: Why Chicago Got It Wrong and Indiana Got It Right.” Report 17 [Manhattan Institute] (July 2016). 16 pages. [PDF]: <https://www.manhattan-institute.org/download/9052/article.pdf>, accessed August 1, 2019.

Sassen, Saskia. "A Global City." In Global Chicago. Edited by Charles Madigan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pages 15-34.

Smith, Matt (Richard M. Daley), papers. University of Illinois at Chicago Library.

Spirou, Costas. "Both Center and Periphery: Chicago's Metropolitan Expansion and the New Downtowns." In The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Edited by Dennis R. Judd and Dick W. Simpson. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Pages 273-301.

Spirou, Costas, and Dennis R. Judd. Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016.

Stovall, David. “Mayoral Control: Reform, Whiteness, and Critical Race Analysis of Neoliberal Educational Policy.” In What’s Race Got To Do With It?: How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality. Edited by Bree Picower and Edwin Mayorga. New York: Peter Lang, 2015.