| 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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| 2511 |
Portrait of William E. Dever, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...the future mayor William E. Dever, who came to Chicago from Woburn, Massachusetts in 1887. He was a...
...he walked back and forth from downtown to the Chicago College of Law. After graduation he worked as...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2512 |
Letter of Charles Norton to Samuel Insull, 1907, Author: Charles Norton(
Historical Source
) ...leading financial underwriters of the planning efforts that resulted in the 1909 Plan of Chicago....
Date Created: 1907,
Date Depicted: 1907
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| 2513 |
Cortland Street Bridge, 1953, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...The first trunnion bascule bridge was built in Chicago at Cortland Street in 1902....
...This is the bridge type Chicago engineers are perhaps most famous for. The trunnion bascule has two...
Date Created: 1953,
Date Depicted: 1953
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| 2514 |
West toward Dearborn Street Bridge, 1918, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Dearborn Street Bridge looking north across the Chicago River. Note both the horse drawn wagons and...
Date Created: 1918,
Date Depicted: 1918
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| 2515 |
Dearborn Street Bridge, 1972, Photographer: Laszlo L. Kondor(
Historical Source
) ...and in the foreground of this 1972 photograph looking east from the north bank of the Chicago River....
Date Created: 1972,
Date Depicted: 1972
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| 2516 |
Bridge Tender's House on Swing Bridge at Calumet Harbor, 1952, Photographer: Owen Kent(
Historical Source
) ...Some of the earliest bridge tenders' houses in Chicago were fixed on top of the...
...center of the swing bridges which dominated Chicago River bridges in the nineteenth century. Seen...
Date Created: 1952,
Date Depicted: 1952
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| 2517 |
Plan of Minneapolis, page 55, Creator: Edward Bennett(
Historical Source
) ...reveal the continuing influence of the Plan of Chicago in his other city-planning work....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2518 |
Michigan Avenue Bridge, 2004, Photographer: Harlan Wallach(
Historical Source
) ...level for commercial traffic, an important proposal within the 1909 Plan of Chicago, is evident....
Date Created: 2004,
Date Depicted: 2004
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| 2519 |
Panoramic View of Northerly Island, 2004, Photographer: Stefani Foster(
Historical Source
) ...which occupied Northerly Island for fifty-five years, was shut down by the city of Chicago in 2003....
Date Created: 2004,
Date Depicted: 2004
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| 2520 |
Blue Note Jazz Club, c.1950s, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...The Blue Note, one of Chicago's premiere jazz clubs during the 1950s, showcased nationally renowned...
Date Created: c.1950s,
Date Depicted: c.1950s
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