the Harold Washington Archives and Collections. These archives hold numerous collections related to Washington's life and political career. Five months after Washington's sudden death in office, a ceremony was held on April 19, 1988, changing the name of Loop College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, to Harold Washington College. Harold Washington Elementary School in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood is also named after the former mayor. In August 2004, the Harold Washington Cultural Center opened to the public in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Across from the Hampton House apartments where Washington lived, a city park was renamed Harold Washington Park, which was known for "Harold's Parakeets", a colony of feral monk parakeets that inhabited Ash Trees in the park. A building on the campus of Chicago State University is named Harold Washington Hall. Six months after Washington's death, School of the Art Institute of Chicago student David Nelson painted Mirth & Girth, a full-length portrait depicting Washington wearing women's lingerie. The work was unveiled on May 11, 1988, opening day of SAIC's annual student exhibition. Within hours, City aldermen and members of the Chicago Police Department seized the painting. It was later returned, but with a five-inch (13 cm) gash in the canvas. Nelson, assisted by the ACLU, filed a federal lawsuit against the city, claiming that the painting's confiscation and subsequent damaging violated his First Amendment rights. The complainants eventually split a US$95,000 (1994, US$138,000 in 2008) settlement from the city. Electoral history Illinois State Representative Illinois State Senator U.S. Congressman Chicago Mayor See also List of African-American United States representatives Ed Lee, first Asian American Mayor of San Francisco, who also died in office of a heart attack at the same age as Washington Events in the Life of Harold Washington (mural) Notes References Further reading Biles, Roger. Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago (U of Illinois Press, 2018). online Clavel, Pierre, and Wim Wiewel, eds. Neighborhood Mayor: Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods: Progressive City Government in Chicago, 1983–1987 (1991) Kleppner, Paul. Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor (1985). Marshall, Jon, and Matthew Connor. "Divided Loyalties: The Chicago Defender and Harold Washington’s Campaign for Mayor of Chicago." American Journalism 36.4 (2019): 447–472. Preston, Michael B. “The Election of Harold Washington: Black Voting Patterns in the 1983 Chicago Mayoral Race.” PS 16#3 1983, pp. 486–88. online External links "Harold" Program 84 – A This