Lois Weisberg

Mayor Daley shows his granddaughter Maggie Conroy, 2, one of the Cows on Parade statue outside U.S. Cellular Field in this Oct. 22, 2005 photo. Lois Weisberg brought the Cows to Chicago. | AP

In 1989, Lois Weisberg urged Mayor Daley to create Chicago Sister Cities International. Pictures is Galway Mayor John M. Mulholland, who preseted Daley with a crystal globe that has a line linking Chicago and Galway in this March 17, 1997 photo. | Al Podgorski~Sun-Times

Lois Weisberg helped start the After School Matters program with Maggie Daley, pictured with Whitney Young High School student Linda Huang on Jan. 21 2004. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times

Lois Weisberg was the brainchild behind the Museum of Modern Ice at Millennium Park. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times

Lois Weisberg created the World Music Festival. Here, Portuguese fado singer Mariza performs at the Athenaeum Theatre in 2004. | Scott Stewart~Sun-Times

Lois Weisberg initiated the Taste of Chicago while Director of the Mayor's Office of Special Events under Mayor Harold Washington. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times

Lois Weisberg created Chicago's SummerDance.

Lois Weisberg anchored the downtown theater district with three city-operated theaters. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times

Lois Weisberg managed and developed programming for Millennium Park. | Scott Stewart~Sun-Times

Lois Weisberg initiated the Chicago Gospel Music Festival while Director of the Mayor's Office of Special Events under Mayor Harold Washington. Pastor Ray Berryhill (pictured) belts out a song with the Evangel Assembly of God Choir of the Evangel World Outreach Center of Chicago in June 2006. | Dom Najolia~Sun-Times

Lois Weisberg was behind sponsoring the free art exhibit Cows on Parade. Pictured is the Moollennium cow in 1999.

Lois Weisberg initiated the Chicago Blues Festival while Director of the Mayor's Office of Special Events under Mayor Harold Washington. Pictures is Magic Slim of Magic Slim and the Tear in June 1997. | Sun-Times file