| 2381 |
Illinois Central Railroad Slip, 1895, Creator: Western Insurance Survey Co.(
Historical Source
) ...The connection between railroads and the Chicago harbor was a close one....
...The Galena and Chicago Railroad, the first into the city, laid tracks right...
...to the west bank of the North Branch of the Chicago River in 1848. A few years later, The Illinois...
Date Created: 1895,
Date Depicted: 1895
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| 2382 |
John Fitzpatrick, n.d., Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, is pictured here...
...addressing workers on the south side of Chicago....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2383 |
Edward Brennan Scrapbook, 1901, Creator: Edward Brennan / Chicago Record Herald(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Edward Brennan / Chicago Record Herald...
Date Created: 1901,
Date Depicted: 1901
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| 2384 |
Proposal for Soldier Field, n.d., Creator: Holabird & Roche, Chicago Plan Commission(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Holabird & Roche, Chicago Plan Commission...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2385 |
View East toward Buckingham Fountain and Lake Michigan, 1959, Photographer: Kaufmann & Fabry(
Historical Source
) ...In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II visited Chicago to commemorate the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway,...
...ships from the St. Lawrence River in Canada via the Great Lakes to Chicago. The city's business and...
...had planned the visit to coincide with the Chicago International Trade Fair being held at Navy Pier....
Date Created: 1959,
Date Depicted: 1959
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| 2386 |
Pioneer, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Pioneer powered the first rail trip in the Chicago metropolitan area, between the city and Elmhurst...
...in 1848, along the first leg of the Galena and Chicago Railroad. The locomotive...
...is now part of the collections of the Chicago Historical Society....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: 1848
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| 2387 |
This Is Cook County, 1958, Creator: Tom P. Barrett, Chicago Sun-Times(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Tom P. Barrett, Chicago Sun-Times...
Date Created: 1958,
Date Depicted: 1958
|
| 2388 |
How Chicagoans Remember Their History, Douglas Knox and Russell Lewis(
Historical Source
) ...Case Study: Fort Dearborn Douglas Knox and Russell Lewis The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 2389 |
Video Gallery / Index, Sarah Marcus(
Historical Source
) ...Politics The Celebrity of Entertainment Sarah S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 2390 |
The Celebrity of Entertainment, (
Historical Source
) ...Studs' Place High Bandwidth Low Bandwidth Quicktime The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 2391 |
Year Page: 1894, James Gilbert(
Year Page
) ...let loose destructive forces that shattered Chicago’s grandiose expectations of an unlimited future....
...a new, cleansed vision of the city in his inflammatory book, If Christ Came to Chicago. Based...
...on an 1893 conference that established the Chicago Civic Federation, the book attacked the wealthy,...
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| 2392 |
DuSable Week Proclamation and Press Release, 1963, Creator: Office of the Mayor City of Chicago and African-American Heritage Association(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Office of the Mayor City of Chicago and African-American Heritage Association...
...recognition of DuSable's status as "the first Chicago resident of record." A decade later the Museum...
Date Created: 1963,
Date Depicted: 1963
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| 2393 |
Governing Space, Douglas Knox(
Historical Source
) ...Relations Federal Space Governing Space The Chicago metropolitan region as defined in this...
...state, tiled the areas outside the city of Chicago with civil townships. While county and township...
...Douglas Knox The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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| 2394 |
Beginning of the 1919 Riot, Photographer: Unknown / Author: Chicago Commission on Race Relations(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Unknown / Author: Chicago Commission on Race Relations...
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
|
| 2395 |
Board of Trade Interior, c. 1900, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Interior, Chicago Board of Trade, c. 1900....
Date Created: c.1900,
Date Depicted:
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| 2396 |
Evening Classes at the Armour Institute of Technology, 1906-1907, Creator: Armour Institute of Chicago(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Armour Institute of Chicago...
Date Created: 1906-1907,
Date Depicted: 1906-1907
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| 2397 |
Democratic National Convention, 1932, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Democratic National Convention, Chicago Stadium, June 27, 1932. The convention nominated...
...Roosevelt for president. The banner honoring Chicago's Democratic mayor, Anton Cermak, was left over...
...aiming for Roosevelt, and thousands of people again filled the Chicago Stadium for Cermak's funeral....
Date Created: 1932,
Date Depicted: 1932
|
| 2398 |
Aerial View of Julia Lathrop Homes, 1937, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...located at Diversey and the North Branch of the Chicago River, was one of three PWA housing projects...
...for white Chicagoans and leased to the new Chicago Housing Authority. In 1937, a fourth was being...
...African Americans. Reflecting the severity of Chicago's housing crisis, there were seven applicants...
Date Created: 1937,
Date Depicted: 1937
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| 2399 |
Inauguration of Mayor Richard J. Daley, (
Historical Source
) ...at the time of his death in 1976. Creator: WGN News Institution: Chicago Historical Society The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 2400 |
Year Page: 1919, James R. Grossman(
Year Page
) ...legally segregated residentialdistricts in the city. Chicago was hardly unique:26 American cities...
...experienced race riots during thesummer of 1919. Chicago’s riots killed and injured morepeople than...
...Race and employment were the tinderboxes in Chicago in 1919. On July 27 a stone-throwing incident...
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