Millennium City: Richard M. Daley & Global ChicagoMain MenuChicago in 1989Richard M. DaleyA Livable CityDiversity and NeighborhoodsGlobal ChicagoInto the MillenniumAboutComplete Interviews and TranscriptsBiographies of and links to each full-lenth interview and corresponding transcript.David Greensteinc7fc3212990439fbd3c1dd961272d52f1519d8e6Dan Harpereff3db32ed95b3efe91d381826e2c10c145cd452Larissa Mukundwa0c6cb03c337751b5774fa39d09352cf04aec006eUniversity of Illinois at Chicago Library
Green Streets program
1media/EXH_RMD16_01_0313_0007_005_thumb.jpg2020-06-25T14:27:58-05:00Allan Berryecbff91fd95c913af0b15c5fb02dfea79da3c78a53Mayor Richard M. Daley's Green Streets program, 1990s. EXHRMD_RMD16_01_0313_0007_005plain2020-07-02T11:54:25-05:001990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999Dan Harpereff3db32ed95b3efe91d381826e2c10c145cd452
Daley endorsed programs to make Chicago more environmentally friendly and a more pleasant place to live. Planting trees, and encouraging rooftop gardens, and cleaning up “brown fields” (industrial waste sites) were among the many initiatives he supported:
Parks
Under Daley’s stewardship, the Chicago Park District reformed its personnel policies, added hundreds of acres of park land [note: verify this claim and try to get an exact number], and redirected its focus to entice Chicagoans to city parks. Forrest Claypool recalls the changes he made after Daley appointed him Superintendent of the Chicago Park District (1993-1998):
img: [Fishing Derby photos available] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020] Gery Chico remembers doing “something about fun” every day when he ran the Chicago Park District (2007-2010):
