| 2441 |
Illinois Steel Works and Harbor Entrance, 1890-1901, Photographer: Detroit Publishing Company(
Historical Source
) ...Illinois Steel Works and harbor entrance, Calumet River, South Chicago, between 1890 and 1901....
Date Created: 1890-1901,
Date Depicted: 1890-1901
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| 2442 |
"Zephyr" Ticket Counter, Union Station, 1943, Photographer: Jack Delano(
Historical Source
) ...Ticket counter for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's "Zephyr," Union Station, 1943....
Date Created: 1943,
Date Depicted: 1943
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| 2443 |
Pullman Water Tower, between 1890 and 1901, Photographer: Detroit Publishing Company(
Historical Source
) ...his planned company town in 1886, but it was integrated into the Chicago municipal system after the...
...area was annexed to Chicago in 1889....
Date Created: 1890-1901,
Date Depicted: 1890-1901
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| 2444 |
Sanitary and Ship Canal Construction Cranes, 1895, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Sanitary and Ship Canal improved shipping from Chicago to the Mississippi River (via the Illinois...
...of protecting the city's drinking supply by directing the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan....
Date Created: 1895,
Date Depicted: 1895
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| 2445 |
"Grand March at Bathhouse John's Ball," 1908, Artist: John T. McCutcheon(
Historical Source
) ...A cartoon by John T. McCutcheon, in the Chicago Tribune, 1908....
Date Created: 1908,
Date Depicted: 1908
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| 2446 |
"The Color Line Has Reached the North," 1919, Artist: John T. McCutcheon(
Historical Source
) ...Cartoon by John T. McCutcheon, Chicago Tribune, July 28, 1919....
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
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| 2447 |
Sheep in the Union Stock Yard, 1897, (
Historical Source
) ...Manufacturing Company Institution: Library of Congress 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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| 2448 |
Dinner with Mayor Edward J. Kelly, 1938, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...1974, after four decades as an alderman on Chicago's City Council, Keane was convicted of mail fraud...
...conspiracy. Arvey wielded significant political clout as a leader of the Chicago Democratic party....
Date Created: ,
Date Depicted:
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| 2449 |
Year Page: 1795, Ann Durkin Keating and Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
Year Page
) ...1812 1848 1871 1894 1919 1937 1968 1983 Chicago as an Indian Town “Although every Indian town...
...religiousobjects recovered from eighteenth-century Chicago(discovered during the 1898 excavations...
...Cruickshank of Montreal and recovered atChicago. Collections of the Chicago Historical Society....
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| 2450 |
Year Page: 1812, Ann Durkin Keating(
Year Page
) ...leader traveling east to joinTecumseh's forces, arrived in Chicago just after themassacre. He later...
...considerablequantity of powder in the fort at Chicago whichthey had promised to the Indians; but the...
...at Fort Dearborn was located on the south side of the Chicago River, near its entry point into Lake...
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| 2451 |
Prairie Avenue, Arthur Meeker, 1949, Author: Arthur Meeker(
Historical Source
) ...of Armour & Co. who was deeply involved in Chicago business, politics, and society. Much of Meeker's...
...the interaction of those aspects of life in Chicago. For Prairie Avenue, Meeker drew heavily on the...
...its readers about Prairie Avenue, a site of Chicago history that he felt by 1949 had already been...
Date Created: 1949,
Date Depicted: ????
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| 2452 |
Country Clubs on Suburban Line of the Illinois Central Railroad, Creator: Illinois Central Railroad Co.(
Historical Source
) ...The enthusiasm many Chicago elites had for golfing helped launch golf clubs and suburban development...
...last decades of the nineteenth century. The city's first club, the Chicago Golf Club, was created in...
...1893 by members of the Chicago Club in what is now Downers Grove. For South Side elites, however,...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2453 |
Lemuel Bryant's Travel Journal, 1832, Author: Lemuel Bryant(
Historical Source
) ...troops to protect the American settlement at Chicago. The soldiers carried cholera with them and...
...chaotic arrival of Winfield Scott’s troops in Chicago. Sick with cholera, these troops were to be...
...attack. In the end, Black Hawk did not attack Chicago, and the allied tribes were forced to turn...
Date Created: 1832,
Date Depicted: 1832
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| 2454 |
"Who is Balbo?," 1933, Creators: Italian Socialist League, Italian League for the Rights of Man(
Historical Source
) ...Italo Balbo, the namesake of Balbo Avenue in Chicago's south Loop, was a fascist party leader and...
...by leading the Italian Formation Flight from Rome to Chicago during the World's Fair of 1933....
...Upon his arrival in Chicago, Balbo and his Italian flying unit were received as dignitaries and a...
Date Created: 1933,
Date Depicted: 1933
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| 2455 |
Mayor Martin Kennelly at Municipal (Midway) Airport, 1947, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...the-world passenger flight stopped briefly at Chicago's Municipal (later Midway) Airport on June 30,...
...to Pan American Airways president Juan Trippe, Chicago was selected as the final stop-over point in...
...In this photograph, Kennelly displays a Chicago flag that had been carried on the flight....
Date Created: 1947,
Date Depicted: 1947
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| 2456 |
Crane Co. Catalogue, "Plumbing and Heating for Architects," 1956, Creator: Crane Co.(
Historical Source
) ...heating equipment in the U.S. Headquartered in Chicago, the company manufactured valves, fittings,...
...World War II building boom that took place on Chicago's southwest and northwest sides, as well as in...
Date Created: 1956,
Date Depicted: 1956
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| 2457 |
Arrival of Steamboat with Cholera, 1834, Author: Edmund Stoughton Kimberly(
Historical Source
) ...The steamboat Chicago arrived in its namesake city in...
...August, 1834. Chicago's captain reported that two sailors had recently died of cholera. The small...
Date Created: 1834,
Date Depicted: 1834
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| 2458 |
Minutes of a Meeting on City Planning, 1907, Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...discussions that took place in the course of creating the Plan of Chicago. In this case, they met...
...to discuss transforming Michigan Avenue into a continuous boulevard crossing the Chicago River....
Date Created: 1907,
Date Depicted: 1907
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| 2459 |
Studebaker Map of World's Columbian Fairgrounds, 1893, Cartographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Many Chicago mapmakers published maps of the grounds, often folding them into guidebooks or...
...side of the sheet featured a map of downtown Chicago highlighting the location of Studebaker's...
Date Created: 1893,
Date Depicted: 1893
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| 2460 |
Lighthouse Keeper's Statistics, 1859, Creator: Robert Millar and James Duncan Graham(
Historical Source
) ...The first lighthouse at Chicago was constructed in 1832, and was replaced with a larger structure...
...in 1852. Early lighthouse keepers at Chicago not only took care of the lighthouse, but also...
Date Created: 1859,
Date Depicted: 1859
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