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Back of the Yards

Back of the Yards Housing Stock, 1959

Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council

Bahā'ī Temple, 1971

Baker & McKenzie

Ballet Theatre, 1940s

Balloon Frame Construction

Bally Manufacturing Corp.

Band Practice, Chicago Hebrew Institute, 1919

Bands, Early and Golden Age

Bank One Corp. (see First National Bank of Chicago )

Bankers Life and Casualty Co.

Banking, Commercial

Bannockburn, IL

Bannockburn, IL

Barge and Tugboat on the South Branch of the Chicago River, c.2000

Barracks of Second Fort Dearborn, 1856

Barrington Hills, IL

Barrington Hills, IL

Baseball in Seward Park, 1909

Baseball, Indoor

Basic Bridge Types, Page 1

Basic Bridge Types, Page 2

Bathers at the Chicago Beach Hotel, 1913

Bathers on Oak Street Beach, 1941

Baxter Travenol Laboratories Inc.

Beach on Near South Side, late 1980s

Beat Generation

Beatrice Foods Co.

A Beautiful Taste by Joelle, 2004

Beck's American Band, Englewood, n.d.

Bedford Park, IL

Bedford Park, IL

Before and After

"Begin Final Link of Ogden Avenue Drive This Week," 1934

Beginning of the 1919 Riot

Bell & Howell Co.

Belmont Cragin, Community Area 19

Ben Franklin Stores (see Butler Bros. )

Ben Hecht: Lake Thoughts

Benedictine University

Benito Juarez High School Yearbook, 1981

Benny Goodman and Orchestra, 1935

Bensenville, IL

Bensenville, IL

Bernard Epton Campaign Office, 1983

Bessie Coleman: Pioneer Chicago Aviator

Bessie Louise Pierce and Chicago History

Bethlehem Steel Corp.

Beverly Shores, IN

Beverly Shores, IN

Beverly, Community Area 72

"Bidding Farewell to the Fox," 2001

Bigger Thomas: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods

Bilingual Education

Billy Graham Center

Billy Sunday, 1915

Biographical Dictionary

Biography of Mark Beaubien in History of Chicago, A. T. Andreas, 1884

Bird's Eye View of Chicago, 1857

Bird's Eye View of Chicago, 1879

Bird's Eye View of South Chicago and Calumet Harbor, 1874

Bird's Eye View of the Business District of Chicago, 1898

Bird's-Eye View of 63rd and Halsted Streets, 1948

Bird's-Eye View of Chicago from the West, 1874

Bird's-Eye View of Elevated Railroads, Parks and Boulevards, 1910

Bird's-Eye View of Stock Yard, 1860s

Birdcage Parking Garage, 1957

Birthing Practices

Black Hawk Portrait, n.d.

Black Panther Party

Black Sox Scandal

Bloomingdale, IL

Bloomingdale, IL

Blue Island Opera House, 1908

Blue Island, IL

Blue Island, IL

Blue Note Jazz Club, c.1950s

Blues Clubs in Chicago

Blues Musicians on Maxwell Street, c.1950-1951

Board of Public Works Notice, 1873

Board of Trade (see Commodities Markets )

Board of Trade Interior, c. 1900

Board of Trade building, c.1904-1913

Boat Convoy on Chicago River, c.2000

Boating (see Sailing and Boating )

Boats on the North Shore Channel, 1987

Bob Fosse: His Chicago Beginnings

Bohemians (see Czechs and Bohemians )

Bolingbrook, IL

Bolingbrook, IL

Book Publishing (see Publishing, Book )

Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc.

Borg-Warner Corp.

Borg-Warner Corp., 1958

Boss Politics (see Patronage )

The Boulevard and the Bridge

Bowman Dairy Cart, c.1900

Bowman Dairy Co.

Boxer Bob Fitzsimmons, 1894

Boy Scouts (see Scouting )

Boy Scouts on Clean-Up Day, 1915

"Boy's-Eye View of Lake Michigan," c.1920

Boys Fishing in the Chicago River near Forest Glen, 1917

Boys Fishing in the Desplaines River, 1926

Boys Swimming in the North Branch of the Chicago River, 1919

Boys along Lakeshore in Evanston, 1905

Boys with Fishing Poles near Fox Lake, 1926

Brach (E. J.) & Sons

Brass Holy Water Font, 1752

Breakwater at 31st Street Beach, 1931

Breeder's Gazette, 1881

Brickmaking (see Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brick Making )

Bridge Tender House, Halsted Street Bridge, 1957

Bridge Tender's House on Swing Bridge at Calumet Harbor, 1952

Bridge Tenders, Page 1

Bridge Tenders, Page 2

Bridgeport, Community Area 60

Briggs House Menu, 1859

Brighton Park Church Parade, 1903

Brighton Park, Community Area 58

Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological Park)

"Brotherhood Week in Chicago," 1928

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Bruce Graham on Modernism

Brunswick Corp.

Bubbly Creek, with Chicken Standing on Crusted Sewage, 1911

Bud Billiken Day Parade

Buffalo Bill Cody, 1916

Buffalo Grove, IL

Buffalo Grove, IL

Bughouse Square

Bughouse Square, 1993

Building Codes and Standards

Building Gary, Broadway Street and Fifth Avenue, April 1906

Building Gary, Broadway Street and Fifth Avenue, June 1907

Building Gary, Harrison Street and Seventh Avenue, 1906

Building Gary, Temporary Workers' Housing, 1907

Building Inspection Report, 1953

Building Inspection, 1953

Building Trades and Workers

Building a Bridge, Page 1

Building a Bridge, Page 2

Building a Harbor for U.S. Steel, Gary, Indiana, c.1906

Built Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis

Built Environment of the Chicago Region

Bull Valley, IL

Bull Valley, IL

Bulletin of the Chicago Housing Authority (June 1941, page 5)

Bulletin of the Chicago Housing Authority (March 1941, page 3)

"Bureau of Public Comfort," Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Burnett (Leo) Co.

Burnham Ponders the Lakefront

Burnham and Root, Commercial Architects

Burnham and Root, c.1890

Burnham's Notes on Costs

Burns Harbor, IN

Burns Harbor, IN

Burnside, Community Area 47

Business Loss or Balanced Growth: Industrial Displacement in Chicago, 1986

Business Portion of Chicago, 1862

Business of Chicago

The Business of Religion

Bust of Dr. Jose Rizal, 2004

Butler Bros. Building, 1928