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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
2471 School and Other Special Districts, ( Historical Source )
...into the twentieth century, many children in the Chicago region began their education in one-room...
...Source: Lake County Outside the city of Chicago, school districts are independent local governments,...
...Firefighting ; Zoning The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
2472 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Conference, 1944, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...In 1944 the NAACP held a conference in Chicago....
...Among the dignitaries present was Chicago alderman Earl B. Dickerson (front row to the left of woman...
Date Created: 1944, Date Depicted: 1944
2473 Sanctuary: A Justice Ministry, c.1983, Author: Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America( Historical Source )
...Author: Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America...
Date Created: c.1983, Date Depicted: c.1983
2474 Lincoln Funeral Procession, 1865, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...Lincoln funeral procession entering Chicago's courthouse, May 1, 1865....
Date Created: 1865, Date Depicted: 1865
2475 Construction of "The Fair" Building, c.1891, ( Historical Source )
...accompanying William Le Baron Jenney, "Chicago Construction of High Buildings on a Compressible...
...News Record, November 1891, showing construction of "The Fair" department store in downtown Chicago....
Date Created: 1891, Date Depicted: 1891
2476 Maypole Dancing, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...Maypole dancing, Chicago Commons Day Nursery (no date)....
Date Created: n.d., Date Depicted: n.d.
2477 Interior of Rockefeller Chapel, n.d., Photographer: Jun Fujita( Historical Source )
...Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago (no date)....
Date Created: n.d., Date Depicted: n.d.
2478 Cattle in the Union Stock Yard, 1897, ( Historical Source )
...Manufacturing Company Institution: Library of Congress The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
2479 State and Madison, 1897, ( Historical Source )
...Manufacturing Company Institution: Library of Congress The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
2480 Introduction, ( User's Guide or Introductory Material )
...historical processes that shaped the lives of these residents were anything but separate. The Gold...
...Coast cannot exist without the slum; the suburb is by definition a place with a relationship to the...
...and shade trees, a developer demolished the old Salvation Army office building, revived the park's...

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