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2451 Proposal for Soldier Field, n.d., Creator: Holabird & Roche, Chicago Plan Commission( Historical Source )
...Creator: Holabird & Roche, Chicago Plan Commission...
Date Created: n.d., Date Depicted: n.d.
2452 View East toward Buckingham Fountain and Lake Michigan, 1959, Photographer: Kaufmann & Fabry( Historical Source )
...In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II visited Chicago to commemorate the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway,...
...ships from the St. Lawrence River in Canada via the Great Lakes to Chicago. The city's business and...
...had planned the visit to coincide with the Chicago International Trade Fair being held at Navy Pier....
Date Created: 1959, Date Depicted: 1959
2453 Pioneer, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...Pioneer powered the first rail trip in the Chicago metropolitan area, between the city and Elmhurst...
...in 1848, along the first leg of the Galena and Chicago Railroad. The locomotive...
...is now part of the collections of the Chicago Historical Society....
Date Created: n.d., Date Depicted: 1848
2454 This Is Cook County, 1958, Creator: Tom P. Barrett, Chicago Sun-Times( Historical Source )
...Creator: Tom P. Barrett, Chicago Sun-Times...
Date Created: 1958, Date Depicted: 1958
2455 How Chicagoans Remember Their History, Douglas Knox and Russell Lewis( Historical Source )
...Case Study: Fort Dearborn   Douglas Knox and Russell Lewis The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
2456 Video Gallery / Index, Sarah Marcus( Historical Source )
...Politics The Celebrity of Entertainment   Sarah S. Marcus   The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
2457 The Celebrity of Entertainment, ( Historical Source )
...Studs' Place High Bandwidth Low Bandwidth Quicktime The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
2458 Map of Lake Forest, 1873, ( Historical Source )
...central place." For the college and accompanying town, they searched out a site on the city's North...
...Louis, and Rock Island, Illinois, laid out the town in 1857. His design for Lake Forest echoes the...
...a group from the Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, intended to "establish an institution of...
Date Created: 1873, Date Depicted: 1873
2459 DuSable Week Proclamation and Press Release, 1963, Creator: Office of the Mayor City of Chicago and African-American Heritage Association( Historical Source )
...Creator: Office of the Mayor City of Chicago and African-American Heritage Association...
...recognition of DuSable's status as "the first Chicago resident of record." A decade later the Museum...
Date Created: 1963, Date Depicted: 1963
2460 Beginning of the 1919 Riot, Photographer: Unknown / Author: Chicago Commission on Race Relations( Historical Source )
...Photographer: Unknown / Author: Chicago Commission on Race Relations...
Date Created: 1919, Date Depicted: 1919
2461 Board of Trade Interior, c. 1900, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...Interior, Chicago Board of Trade, c. 1900....
Date Created: c.1900, Date Depicted:
2462 Surveying Equipment of James Thompson, 1830, Creator: Unknown( Historical Source )
...He laid out the town with straight streets uniformly 66 feet wide (the length of a surveyor's chain)...
...in downstate Randolph County, to create Chicago's first plat (or map showing proposed lots) in 1830....
Date Created: 1830, Date Depicted: 1830
2463 Thompson's Plat of 1830, Creator: James Thompson( Historical Source )
...He laid out the town with straight streets uniformly 66 feet wide (the length of a surveyor's chain)...
...in downstate Randolph County, to create Chicago's first plat (or map showing proposed lots) in 1830....
Date Created: 1837, Date Depicted: 1830
2464 Evening Classes at the Armour Institute of Technology, 1906-1907, Creator: Armour Institute of Chicago( Historical Source )
...Creator: Armour Institute of Chicago...
Date Created: 1906-1907, Date Depicted: 1906-1907
2465 Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, 12 Oct. 1939, Creator: Ogden Dunes Sandpiper( Historical Source )
...investment opportunity for real estate developers. Towns like Ogden Dunes, which was incorporated in...
...1925, grew slowly at first (by 1930, the town had fifty permanent residents). This 1939 newsletter,...
Date Created: 1939, Date Depicted: 1939
2466 Democratic National Convention, 1932, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...Democratic National Convention, Chicago Stadium, June 27, 1932. The convention nominated...
...Roosevelt for president. The banner honoring Chicago's Democratic mayor, Anton Cermak, was left over...
...aiming for Roosevelt, and thousands of people again filled the Chicago Stadium for Cermak's funeral....
Date Created: 1932, Date Depicted: 1932
2467 Aerial View of Julia Lathrop Homes, 1937, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...located at Diversey and the North Branch of the Chicago River, was one of three PWA housing projects...
...for white Chicagoans and leased to the new Chicago Housing Authority. In 1937, a fourth was being...
...African Americans. Reflecting the severity of Chicago's housing crisis, there were seven applicants...
Date Created: 1937, Date Depicted: 1937
2468 Inauguration of Mayor Richard J. Daley, ( Historical Source )
...at the time of his death in 1976. Creator: WGN News Institution: Chicago Historical Society The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
2469 Year Page: 1919, James R. Grossman( Year Page )
...legally segregated residentialdistricts in the city. Chicago was hardly unique:26 American cities...
...experienced race riots during thesummer of 1919. Chicago’s riots killed and injured morepeople than...
...Race and employment were the tinderboxes in Chicago in 1919. On July 27 a stone-throwing incident...
2470 Hickory St. Ramp to Goose Island from Ogden Avenue, 1988, Photographer: John McCarthy( Historical Source )
...were Charles Levy Circulating Company and Chicago Terminal Clearance, a large trucking operation...
...that "fast arterial highway," as described in a Chicago Tribune article from November 26, 1934. The...
Date Created: 1988, Date Depicted: 1988

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