City Spotlight: Chicago, Illinois

PSN primary source collections

• Great Chicago Fire
• 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
• Nuclear Fission

PSN featured sources

• The Red Flag or the Anarchists of Chicago
• 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
• School Strike

Chicago collections & teaching resources

• Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
• Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection
  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Goes Online Folklife Today blog May 24, 2016
• Learning from the Source: Chicago Meatpackers & the Unions
• Mapping Population Growth in Chicago, 1850 vs. 1900
• Primary Source Learning: Chicago Anarchists & the Haymarket Affair
• Search page for Photographs from the Chicago Daily News Chicago History Museum
  • (collection connections: primary source learning activities) search for images using link above
• The Chicagoan magazine 1926-35 University of Chicago Library

Chicago newspaper resources

• The Haymarket Affair: select newspaper articles (1886-1893)
• Chicago World’s Fair: select newspaper articles (1892-1893)
• Chicago Black Sox baseball scandal: select newspaper articles (1892-1893)
• Chicago Eagle newspaper collection (1889-1920)
• Chicago Day Book newspaper collection (1911-1917)

Chicago primary source sets

• 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 Cubs: Baseball Cards (to 1914)
• Chicago Maroons: Baseball Cards (to 1914)
• Chicago White Sox: Baseball Cards (to 1914)
• Chicago White Stockings: Baseball Cards (to 1914)

Baseball Stadiums and Maps: Chicago Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps July 6, 2018

Illinois primary source collections