| 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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| 2461 |
Zenith Radio Store, 1936, Photographer: Philip B. Maher, Hedrich-Blessing(
Historical Source
) ...to-ceiling windows of this Zenith Radio store in Chicago in September 1936. Personal radio purchases...
...in 1936, which coincided with a drop in radio prices and increased sales for the Chicago company....
Date Created: 1936,
Date Depicted: 1936
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| 2462 |
Reproduction of Fort Dearborn at the Century of Progress Exposition, 1933, Photographer: Kaufmann & Fabry Co.(
Historical Source
) ...Century of Progress Exposition could measure Chicago's progress by walking through a replica of Fort...
...of the world, visitors could engage Chicago's history by becoming tourists of a reconstruction of a...
Date Created: 1933,
Date Depicted: 1933
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| 2463 |
Daniel Burnham's Notes, 1908, Author: Daniel H. Burnham(
Historical Source
) ...before a special closed meeting of the Commercial Club of Chicago, using a series of lantern...
...slides to summarize the Plan of Chicago, which would be published in 1909. In these preliminary...
Date Created: 1908,
Date Depicted: 1908
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| 2464 |
LaSalle Street Bridge, 1928, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Looking east along the Chicago River at the LaSalle Street Bridge prior to completion, 1928....
Date Created: 1928,
Date Depicted: 1928
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| 2465 |
Terrace Garden Restaurant, c. 1920s, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Morrison Hotel at Clark and Madison in downtown Chicago, offered patrons live music and dancing with...
...the Morrison advertised itself as the focus of Chicago's downtown life. The restaurant was razed in...
Date Created: c.1920s,
Date Depicted: c.1920s
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| 2466 |
Vacant Property Razed for UIC, 1962, Photographer: Larry Hemenway(
Historical Source
) ...Vacant property razed to make way for the University of Illinois at Chicago, 1962....
Date Created: 1962,
Date Depicted: 1962
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| 2467 |
Selig Polyscope Lot, 1914, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Filming a movie set at the Selig Polyscope lot, Western and Irving Park, Chicago, 1914....
Date Created: 1914,
Date Depicted: 1914
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| 2468 |
North-Western Hymn Book, 1868, (
Historical Source
) ...Title page of The North-Western Hymn Book, compiled by D. L. Moody (Chicago, 1868)....
Date Created: 1868,
Date Depicted: 1868
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| 2469 |
Barracks of Second Fort Dearborn, 1856, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...After Chicago became a city in 1837, it grew rapidly around the edges of the second Fort...
...in 1816. The fort persisted until 1857, when Chicago had a population of more than 80,000. It was...
Date Created: 1856,
Date Depicted: 1856
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| 2470 |
Year Page: 1871, Karen Sawislak(
Year Page
) ...1871, less than 40 years after its incorporation, Chicago had mushroomed from a pioneer outpost to a...
...arrived every year to see what opportunities Chicago might hold. All this was interrupted the night...
...30 a.m. ; the blaze leapt the main branch of the Chicago River soon after. For almost 20 hours more,...
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