| 2311 |
Interior of Houseboat, 1903, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...no different than those of most houses in Chicago at the time. The heavy dining room table seems out...
Date Created: 1903,
Date Depicted: 1903
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| 2312 |
Committee Minutes, 1907, Creator: Committee on Plan of Chicago, Commercial Club of Chicago(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Committee on Plan of Chicago, Commercial...
...Club of Chicago...
...agreed upon at an April 1, 1907 meeting of Chicago city planners was that "a carefully prepared...
Date Created: 1907,
Date Depicted: 1907
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| 2313 |
Henry C. Cowles, c.1913, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...Cowles, professor of botany at the University of Chicago, attracted scientific interest in the Dunes...
Date Created: c.1913,
Date Depicted: 1913
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| 2314 |
"The Great Goose Island Expedition," 1930, Author: John Drury, Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Author: John Drury, Chicago Daily News...
...Drury's Map of Goose Island was first published on March 26, 1930, in the Chicago Daily News. The...
...map shows the location of Goose Island on Chicago’s Near North Side, located between Chicago and...
Date Created: 1930,
Date Depicted: 1930
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| 2315 |
"Begin Final Link of Ogden Avenue Drive This Week," 1934, Creator: Chicago Tribune(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Tribune...
...that "fast arterial highway," as described in this Chicago Tribune article from November 26, 1934....
Date Created: 1934,
Date Depicted: 1934
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| 2316 |
East on W. 103rd Street from S. Longwood Drive, 1908, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...ridge that measures the highest point in Chicago -- reveals the spacious residences and tree-lined...
Date Created: 1908,
Date Depicted: 1908
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| 2317 |
Striking Illinois Central Railroad Workers in Burnside, 1911, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...Chicago's smallest community area, Burnside, is bounded on all sides by railroad tracks. During the...
Date Created: 1911,
Date Depicted: 1911
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| 2318 |
On Leong Merchants Association Building, 1928, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...Chinese City Hall, the building was designed by Chicago architects Christian Michaelsen and Sigurd...
Date Created: 1928,
Date Depicted: 1928
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| 2319 |
Henry B. Clarke House, 1934, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...B. Clarke House, one of the oldest buildings in Chicago, was built in 1836 and stood near Sixteenth...
Date Created: 1934,
Date Depicted: 1934
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| 2320 |
Keith Brothers Advertisement, 1871, Creator: Chicago Evening Journal(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Evening Journal...
...In 1871, for most of Chicago's male elites, going to work meant going downtown to their stores and...
Date Created: 1871,
Date Depicted: 1871
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| 2321 |
Pig on Goose Island, 1911, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...improvements as property holders in the City of Chicago. While the area had no street lights (except...
Date Created: 1911,
Date Depicted: 1911
|
| 2322 |
Aerial view of Goose Island, c.1970, Photographer: Chicago Department of Public Works(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Department of Public Works...
...Island shows the southern tip of the island (at Chicago Avenue) in the far right of the photograph...
...left at North Avenue. The North Branch of the Chicago River is the waterway to the left and the...
Date Created: c.1970,
Date Depicted: c.1970
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| 2323 |
Wading in Union Park Lake, 1912, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...Union Park on Chicago's Near West Side was one of the city's first public parks. When this lake was...
Date Created: 1912,
Date Depicted: 1912
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| 2324 |
Boys with Fishing Poles near Fox Lake, 1926, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...To the northwest of the City of Chicago, dozens of small lakes dot western Lake and McHenry...
Date Created: 1926,
Date Depicted: 1926
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| 2325 |
Wilson Bathing Beach, 1919, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...they claimed had not paid his admittance fee. The Chicago Tribune explained that "bathers from other...
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
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| 2326 |
Park Districts and Parks Map, 1913, Cartographer: Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency(
Historical Source
) ...Cartographer: Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency...
...This 1913 map shows the several park districts which once served areas within the city of Chicago....
Date Created: 1913,
Date Depicted: 1913
|
| 2327 |
Mayor William Hale Thompson Voting, 1916, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...campaign revealed significant cleavages in Chicago's body politic. Reform candidate Charles E....
Date Created: 1916,
Date Depicted: 1916
|
| 2328 |
Map of Cook and DuPage, and parts of Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties, 1851, Creator: James H. Rees(
Historical Source
) ...1840s and 1850s. Almost all of the platted towns seen on the map are along rivers or lakes. Early...
...on the map is the Illinois and Michigan Canal connecting the south branch of the Chicago River Only...
...the Galena and Chicago Railroad made its way westward from the City of Chicago, presaging the much...
Date Created: 1851,
Date Depicted: 1851
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| 2329 |
Soldiers in Gary during Steel Strike, 1919, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...of U.S. Steel's board of directors and the town's namesake, helped make the strike long and bitter....
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
|
| 2330 |
Boys Fishing in the Desplaines River, 1926, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...of the Des Plaines River to the northwest of Chicago in Des Plaines in 1926. A dock is visible on...
Date Created: 1926,
Date Depicted: 1926
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