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]
• Remembering Richard J. Daley online exhibit
• UIC Special Collections and University Archives finding aids (and How to search finding aids)
• Explore Chicago Collections

Archival collections used in this exhibit

These collections have been used to create Millennium City: Richard M. Daley & Global Chicago. They represent only a few of the approximately 500 manuscript collections at UIC Special Collections and University Archives. These collections are open to the public in the reading room at UIC’s Richard J. Daley Library. For more information, please see the Researcher's Guide to Special Collections and University Archives.

• Bilandic, Michael A. papers
• Brubaker, C. William collection
• 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
• Hollenbach Sausage Company records, University of Illinois at Chicago Library.
• Independent Democratic Coalition records
• Kennelly, Martin H. papers
• Kondor, Laszlo (Richard J. Daley and Richard M. Daley) photograph collection
• Natarus, Burton papers, University of Illinois at Chicago Library.
• Smith, Matt (Richard M. Daley) papers

Additional sources consulted for this 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.

Changnon, Stanley, A., Kenneth E. Kunkel, and Beth C. Reinke. "Impacts and Responses to the 1995 Heat Wave: A Call to Action" Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 77, 7 (July 1996). Pages 1497-1506.

Chicago Sun-Times. Selected articles.

Chicago Tribune. Selected articles.

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

Gradel, Thomas J., and Dick Simpson. Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Gradel, Thomas J., Dick Simpson, and Andris Zimelis, with Kirsten Byers, David Michelberger, Chris Olson, and Nirav Saughani. "The Depth of Corruption in Illinois: Anti-Corruption Report Number 2, May 13, 2009." Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago Political Science Department, 2009.

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

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

Klinenberg, Eric. "Denaturalizing disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave" Theory and Society 28 (1999). Pages 239-295.

Klinenberg, Eric, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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

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.

Scarborough, William, Ivan Arenas, and Amanda E. Lewis. "Between the Great Migration and Growing Exodus: The Future of Black Chicago?" Institute for Research on Race and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, January 2020.

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.