This move prompted the bank chairman Paul Volcker to meet with Cincotta. DePaul University Special Collections and Archives holds a collection of notes, research, and publications about Gale Cincotta. The collection was created by Michael Westgate and Ann Vick-Westgate while writing "Gale Force: Gale Cincotta, the Battles for Disclosure and Community Investment", about Cincotta and her activism in Chicago. In 1985, Cincotta received the Chicago Commission on Human Rights Award, and Cincotta was named one of the "Ms." Foundation Women of the Year. Cincotta also won the first Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Neighborhood Partnership Award.