CITY 2000 is an unprecedented chronicle of Chicago in the First year of the 21st century. Missbach Day, along with more than 200 other photographers, spent the year documenting the city.

Comer Archive of the City of Chicago in the Year 2000

The Comer Archive of Chicago in the Year 2000 collection, or CITY 2000, was conceived by Lands End founder Gary Comer as a way to capture the city and its citizens on the cusp of a new millennium. Comer hired Richard Cahan from the Chicago Tribune to manage the project, who in turn collaborated with over 200 photographers, videographers, and journalists to document the entire year in all 50 wards. The projects ranged from the mundane and familiar to the innovative and unique, documenting the contents in ladies' purses and back porches across Chicago, to the 2000 election, reparations hearings, the Justice for Janitors SEIU local #1 strike, the unveiling of Sue the T-Rex, the Special Olympics, the Native American 8th Annual Pow Wow Contest, and more.