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
Mayor Daley at Chicago's museum campus
1media/EXH_RMD16_07_0162_0011_007a-Edit_thumb.jpg2020-04-27T20:07:12-05:00Dan Harpereff3db32ed95b3efe91d381826e2c10c145cd45257Mayor Richard M. Daley walks with children at Chicago's museum campus, June 4, 1998. EXHRMD_RMD16_07_0162_0011_007a-Editplain2020-07-01T17:09:39-05:001998-06-04Dan 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):
