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
Mellody Hobson discusses Chicago's Sister Cities program
12020-05-14T11:16:26-05:00David Greensteinc7fc3212990439fbd3c1dd961272d52f1519d8e652Mellody Hobson discusses Chicago's Sister Cities program. From interview conducted May 22, 2018.plain2021-01-26T14:02:55-06:00Dan Harpereff3db32ed95b3efe91d381826e2c10c145cd452
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1media/EXH_RMD16_05_0029_0003_001_003_Detail.jpg2020-04-14T03:34:54-05:00Sister Cities22plain2021-01-29T16:17:33-06:00Sister Cities International was a program developed during the Cold War to promote cooperation and trade between American cities and cities abroad. Richard M. Daley's father, Mayor Richard J. Daley, brought the program to Chicago in 1960 when Warsaw became the city’s first Sister City.
When Richard M. took office in 1989, he revived and expanded the city’s participation, hoping that closer ties to other urban centers around the world would strengthen the growing image of Chicago as a cosmopolitan, economic leader, engaged with international organizations. Daley also hoped the Sister Cities program would bring business opportunities and tourism while highlighting Chicago’s diverse communities of many ethnic and national groups.
Richard M. Daley more than doubled the number of Chicago’s Sister Cities as this map shows: Mellody Hobson explains that Sister Cities was one of several initiatives meant to expand Chicago’s global connections: This signing ceremony in the mayor’s office in City Hall added Kiev to the list of Chicago’s Sister Cities. A program from this 2009 Sister Cities event shows that the mayor used the opportunity to promote Chicago as “A Global City.”
