Late Mayor Harold Washington Meets with the Mayor of Loiza, Puerto Rico. (1985)

During his visit to the 1985 U.S. Conference of Mayors, the late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and his delegation, visited Loiza, Puerto Rico, a township established by Puerto Rico’s freed African slaves in1692. This image captures the Mayor of Loiza welcoming the late Mayor Harold Washington and Congressperson Luis Gutierrez (then Alderperson of the 26th Ward in Chicago). Puerto Rico (1985)