Last Updated on August 10, 2022
PSN primary source collections
- Jane Addams & Hull House
- John Peter Altgeld
- Daniel Burnham
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Anarchist Emma Goldman
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Louis H. Sullivan
- Chicago Cubs
- First American Automobile Race
- Great Chicago Fire
- Nuclear Fission
Teaching resources
- Guided primary source analyses
- Learning from the Source: Chicago Meatpackers & the Unions
- Mapping Population Growth in Chicago, 1850 vs. 1900
- Primary Source Learning: Chicago Anarchists & the Haymarket Affair
- Chicago Daily News Collection Connections: primary source learning activities | search for images
Chicago collections
- Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
- Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection
- Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Goes Online Folklife Today blog May 24, 2016
- The Chicagoan magazine 1926-35 University of Chicago Library
- Search page for Photographs from the Chicago Daily News Chicago History Museum
Chicago newspaper resources
- Newspapers
- Chicago Day Book newspaper collection 1911-1917
- Chicago Eagle newspaper collection 1889-1920
- Timelines, background & select articles
- Chicago Black Sox baseball scandal: select newspaper articles 1892-1893
- Chicago Teamsters’ Strike of 1905
- Chicago World’s Fair: select newspaper articles 1892-1893
- The Haymarket Affair: select newspaper articles 1886-1893
Chicago primary source sets
- Chicago Blues and Jazz story map
- Homegrown Pride – Chicago Community Cultural Centers story map
- Chicago books & articles
- Chicago related legislation
- Chicago maps
- Chicago sheet music
- “Chicago” song recording
- “Chicago, We’re True to You” song recording
- Chicago films
- Chicago image set
- Chicago Posters: WPA Poster Collection
- Popular Graphic Arts: Chicago
- Chicago: American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
- Chicago: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
- Chicago: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945
- Illinois (mostly Chicago) Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940
- Chicago: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
- Chicago baseball card collections (to 1914)
- Locate Cook County baseball images in Mapping an American Pastime
- Baseball Stadiums and Maps: Chicago Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps July 6, 2018
Chicago’s South Park by Fredrick Law Olmsted Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress
Mapping the Gangs of Chicago Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress
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