| 2491 |
Illinois Central Railroad Depot, 1858, Photographer: Alexander Hesler(
Historical Source
) ...Central depot and grain elevators, south of the Chicago River, north of what would, when filled with...
Date Created: 1858,
Date Depicted: 1858
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| 2492 |
Union Stock Yard Canning Room, c.1890, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Meat packed in the canning rooms of Chicago's Union Stock Yard (here c. 1890) was sold throughout...
Date Created: c.1890,
Date Depicted: c.1890
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| 2493 |
Masonic Temple, 1894, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...A city under one roof--the Masonic Temple, Chicago," 1894, showing the temple's height relative to...
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1894
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| 2494 |
Polk Street, c.1957, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...construction of the University of Illinois at Chicago, looking eastward from 1020 West Polk, c....
Date Created: c.1957,
Date Depicted: c.1957
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| 2495 |
Wisconsin Central Depot in Antioch, c.1928, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Wisconsin Central trains brought hundreds from Chicago on summer Saturdays to the Chain of Lakes...
Date Created: c.1928,
Date Depicted: c.1928
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| 2496 |
Harold Washington Taking Oath of Office, 1983, Photographer: Ernie Cox, Jr.(
Historical Source
) ...of office to Harold Washington, who became Chicago's forty-second mayor. Breaking with tradition,...
...and Studs Terkel, performances by the Chicago Children's Choir and the Morris Ellis Orchestra, and...
Date Created: 1983,
Date Depicted: 1983
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| 2497 |
Smashing Slot Machines, 1907, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Slot machines, seized in an effort to curtail gambling in Chicago, are destroyed with hammers, 1907....
Date Created: 1907,
Date Depicted: 1907
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| 2498 |
WPA Syphilis Poster, 1930s, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Art Project created tactful publicity to aid the Chicago Health Department's efforts to eradicate...
Date Created: 1938,
Date Depicted: 1938
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| 2499 |
Black Hawk Portrait, n.d., (
Historical Source
) ...traveling east to join Tecumseh's forces, arrived in Chicago just after the massacre. He later...
...a considerable quantity of powder in the Fort at Chicago which they had promised to the Indians; but...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2500 |
U. S. Troops on Lakefront, 1894, Artist: T. Dart Walker (from a photograph by J. W. Taylor)(
Historical Source
) ...both the high visibility of the army troops in Chicago and the skyline that the city had celebrated...
...6,000 federal and state troops, 3,100 police, and 5,000 deputy marshals in Chicago during July 1894....
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1894
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| 2501 |
Riot at Blue Island, 1894, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...The unrest at Blue Island sketched here in the Chicago Tribune led Attorney General Richard Olney to...
...employees on the 24 railroads centering in Chicago lost wages of at least $1,389,143. In addition, "...
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1894
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| 2502 |
National Guardsmen Questioning African American, 1919, Photographer: Jun Fujita(
Historical Source
) ...legally segregated residential districts in the city. Chicago was hardly unique: 26 American cities...
...race riots during the summer of 1919. Chicago's riots killed and injured more people than the...
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
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| 2503 |
View of DuSable's Cabin, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...which appeared in A. T. Andreas's History of Chicago in 1884, Jean Baptiste and Catherine Point...
...on the north side of the main branch of the Chicago River just west of Lake Michigan. When sold in...
Date Created: 1884,
Date Depicted: 1779
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| 2504 |
Map of Northwest Territory, 1795, Thomas Valentine(
Historical Source
) ...took land at sixteen strategic locations, including Chicago. Not until the end of the War of 1812,...
...however, did the government begin to exert control over the region that would become Chicago....
Date Created: ,
Date Depicted: 1795
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| 2505 |
Increases in Poverty, 1970-1980, (
Historical Source
) ...published A Special Report: Race and Poverty in Chicago in 1983 in which they documented that 1980...
...census data showed that one in five of Chicago's residents lived below the poverty line, an increase...
Date Created: ,
Date Depicted: 1970-1980
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| 2506 |
A Mother's Record, 1895, Author: Mary Shortall(
Historical Source
) ...this picture was taken recorded the life of Harrington Shortall, born in Chicago on February 25,...
...1895, to one of Chicago's oldest elite families. His great-grandfather John Staples built the first...
...John G. Shortall was one of the founders of Chicago Title and Trust. His father, attorney John L....
Date Created: 1895,
Date Depicted: 1895
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| 2507 |
Senator Homer Capehart Letter to Editors, 1959, Creator: U. S. Senator Homer Capehart(
Historical Source
) ...the nation were booming and plants in the Chicago metropolitan area were producing one-quarter of...
...concluded that consumption of steel in the Chicago region already exceeded production. Industry...
Date Created: 1959,
Date Depicted: 1959
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| 2508 |
Café Azteca II Menu, 1977, Creator: Café Azteca II(
Historical Source
) ...Avenue on May 11, 1957, it was one of only three sit-down Mexican restaurants in Chicago. Camacho,...
...who had migrated from Oaxaca, Mexico to Chicago in 1946, served as the restaurant's founder,...
Date Created: 1977,
Date Depicted: 1977
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| 2509 |
Pupils' Reunion Concert Program, 1881, Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Frederic W. Root occupied a prominent place in Chicago's nineteenth-century music scene, along with...
...especially vocal music. He was a favorite of Chicago's elite who wanted their children to achieve...
Date Created: 1881,
Date Depicted: 1881
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| 2510 |
Revised Preliminary Plan of Grant Park, 1903, Creator: Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects(
Historical Source
) ...note how much larger it is than the original Art Institute of Chicago building) dominates the park....
...It is situated, as the Plan of Chicago would recommend, along an extended Congress Street. North and...
Date Created: 1903,
Date Depicted: 1903
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