City of Chicago - Sister Cities

Sister Cities

Chicago has 28 Sister Cities around the world. Like Chicago, many of them are or were the second most populous city or second most influential city of their country, or they are the main city of a country that has had large amounts of immigrants settle in Chicago. Paris is a Partner City, due to the one sister city policy of its respective French commune.

To celebrate the sister cities, Chicago hosts a yearly festival in Daley Plaza, which features cultural acts and food tastings from the other cities. In addition, the Chicago Sister Cities program hosts a number of delegation and formal exchanges. In some cases, these exchanges have led to further informal collaborations, such as the academic relationship between the Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University and the Institute of Gerontology of Ukraine (originally of the Soviet Union), that was originally established as part of the Chicago-Kiev sister cities program.

Sister Cities

• Warsaw (Poland) 1960
• Milan (Italy) 1973
• Osaka (Japan) 1973
• Casablanca (Morocco) 1982
• Shanghai (China) 1985
• Shenyang (China) 1985
• Gothenburg (Sweden) 1987
• Accra (Ghana) 1989
• Prague (Czech Republic) 1990
• Kyiv (Ukraine) 1991
• Mexico City (Mexico) 1991
• Toronto (Canada) 1991
• Birmingham (United Kingdom) 1993
• Vilnius (Lithuania) 1993
• Hamburg (Germany) 1994
• Petah Tikva (Israel) 1994
• Athens (Greece) 1997
• Durban (South Africa) 1997
• Galway (Ireland) 1997
• Moscow (Russia) 1997
• Lucerne (Switzerland) 1998
• Delhi (India) 2001
• Amman (Jordan) 2004
• São Paulo (Brazil) 2004
• Belgrade (Serbia) 2005
• Lahore (Pakistan) 2007
• Busan (South Korea) 2007
• Bogotá (Colombia) 2009

Partner City

• Paris (France) 1996