The Chicago St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee welcomes our
2024 Grand Marshal:
Peter O'Brien, Sr.
President and CEO of Mado Management, LP
2024 Grand Marshal:
Peter O'Brien, Sr.
President and CEO of Mado Management, LP
Peter O’Brien Sr. is President and CEO of MADO Management, a diversified family business. Born and raised in Chicago, to parents of Irish descent who first began their business ventures together in 1946, Peter has become a community and civic leader and a national advocate for mental health and substance use treatment equity. The company’s name, MADO, is an acronym derived from his parents’ names: Mary And Dan O’Brien.
A division of the company, MADO Healthcare, owns and operates three Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Facilities and one skilled and intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness and coexisting chronic illnesses. MADO Healthcare’s first facility was created in 1961. Throughout Mr. O’Brien’s youth and adolescence, he worked alongside his parents, providing care and support to persons living with serious mental illness at MADO treatment facilities. In 1977 he formally began working with the company.
MADO Management is additionally invested in residential and commercial leasing and community development, particularly in Chicago’s Old Town Neighborhood, and owns and operates O’Briens Restaurant with locations in Old Town, O’Hare, and the downtown Riverwalk. Serving as Vice Chair for SSA 48-Old Town, Peter has contributed to the growth and prosperity of Old Town and Chicago.
Mr. O’Brien has served on the Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority, the Illinois Development & Finance Authority, and the Capital Development Board of Illinois. Appointed by Governor Pritzker in 2019, Peter is currently serving a second term as Chairman of the Illinois Medical District (IMD) Board.
Mr. O’Brien and his family’s involvement with mental health advocacy became more personal in 1999 when his son and oldest child, the late Peter O’Brien Jr., was first hospitalized and diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 20. In the 12 years that Peter Jr. lived with and struggled to come to terms with his illness, Peter and his wife Mimi remained strong, and it was Peter Jr.’s journey that brought Peter Sr. to the realization of the need for destigmatization, mental health equity, and a system of coordinated care for persons with serious mental illness.
Mr. O’Brien continues his advocacy for mental health equity through engagement in and sponsorship of the Kennedy Forum, a national movement launched by Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, whose mission it is to end stigma and discrimination against people with mental health and substance use challenges – and to help ensure equitable access to healthcare to address these diseases.
Following in the footsteps of his father, who served as Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshal in 2006, Mr. O’Brien is honored and delighted to serve as the 2024 Parade Grand Marshal. Along with his continued leadership in the family business in Chicago, Peter and Mimi O’Brien find much joy with their growing family: their daughter Caitlin, daughter Meghan, her husband Ben and their son Clifford and their daughter Reenie, her husband Cabell and their children Tiernan, Adeline, and Mabel. Together, they look forward to this year’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities.
A division of the company, MADO Healthcare, owns and operates three Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Facilities and one skilled and intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness and coexisting chronic illnesses. MADO Healthcare’s first facility was created in 1961. Throughout Mr. O’Brien’s youth and adolescence, he worked alongside his parents, providing care and support to persons living with serious mental illness at MADO treatment facilities. In 1977 he formally began working with the company.
MADO Management is additionally invested in residential and commercial leasing and community development, particularly in Chicago’s Old Town Neighborhood, and owns and operates O’Briens Restaurant with locations in Old Town, O’Hare, and the downtown Riverwalk. Serving as Vice Chair for SSA 48-Old Town, Peter has contributed to the growth and prosperity of Old Town and Chicago.
Mr. O’Brien has served on the Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority, the Illinois Development & Finance Authority, and the Capital Development Board of Illinois. Appointed by Governor Pritzker in 2019, Peter is currently serving a second term as Chairman of the Illinois Medical District (IMD) Board.
Mr. O’Brien and his family’s involvement with mental health advocacy became more personal in 1999 when his son and oldest child, the late Peter O’Brien Jr., was first hospitalized and diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 20. In the 12 years that Peter Jr. lived with and struggled to come to terms with his illness, Peter and his wife Mimi remained strong, and it was Peter Jr.’s journey that brought Peter Sr. to the realization of the need for destigmatization, mental health equity, and a system of coordinated care for persons with serious mental illness.
Mr. O’Brien continues his advocacy for mental health equity through engagement in and sponsorship of the Kennedy Forum, a national movement launched by Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, whose mission it is to end stigma and discrimination against people with mental health and substance use challenges – and to help ensure equitable access to healthcare to address these diseases.
Following in the footsteps of his father, who served as Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshal in 2006, Mr. O’Brien is honored and delighted to serve as the 2024 Parade Grand Marshal. Along with his continued leadership in the family business in Chicago, Peter and Mimi O’Brien find much joy with their growing family: their daughter Caitlin, daughter Meghan, her husband Ben and their son Clifford and their daughter Reenie, her husband Cabell and their children Tiernan, Adeline, and Mabel. Together, they look forward to this year’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities.