Last Updated on October 11, 2020
These curated resource lists coincide with the order of the topic ideas listed in the Chicago Metro History Fair (formerly CMHEC) NHD 2017 theme-related topic ideas. The links lead to resources from the Primary Source Nexus and the Library of Congress (LOC.gov) unless otherwise noted. Note: U.S. historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1922 unless otherwise noted.
Burnham and the City Beautiful
- Today in History: Daniel Burnham background & primary sources
- Featured Source: 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
- World’s Fair Columbian Exposition primary sources
Public Utilities, Not Private! electricity and gas
- Chicago Gas Light: select newspaper articles from the New York Journal (1896-98)
- More Chicago Gas Light and Coke Company historic newspaper coverage
- People’s Gas Light and Coke Company historic newspaper coverage
- Samuel Insull historic newspaper coverage from the New York Journal (1891-99)
- Chicago Edison: select newspaper articles from the New York Journal (1898-99) and the New York Herald (1906)
- More Chicago Edison historic newspaper coverage
- Commonwealth Edison historic newspaper coverage
- Public utilities historic newspaper coverage
- Gas and Electricity Encyclopedia of Chicago
- Regulation – Public Vs. Private Power Frontline PBS
- Regulation as a Contract: The Origin of the Illinois Public Utilities Commission The Cliometric Society
- Public Utilities Act Illinois General Assembly
Saving Sullivan: Richard Nickel
- Richard Nickel primary source set
- The Richard Nickel Story WTTW PBS
- In ‘Nickel’s Chicago,’ a Lost City’s Lost Champion NPR
- Today in History: Louis H. Sullivan
Look at the Urban League (need to narrow)
The Parks and Playground Movement
- Chicago parks primary source set
- Chicago playgrounds primary source set
- McKinley Park photos
- Chicago South Park Commission historic newspaper coverage
- Playground Movement Encyclopedia of Chicago
- Today in History: Daniel Burnham
- Today in History: Frederick Law Olmsted
Rules of the Roads—The Introduction of Automobiles into the City
- Streets and Highways Encyclopedia of Chicago
- Chicago automobile images 1894-1919
- Chicago automobile laws: historic newspaper articles 1905-1915
- Chicago’s Highways, Old and New, from Indian Trail to Motor Road Internet archive
Mary McDowell
- Mary McDowell primary source set
- Mary McDowell (Chicago) historic newspaper coverage
- Mary McDowell and Chicago Settlement Houses Encyclopedia of Chicago
- Woman’s Christian Temperance Union primary source set
- Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (Chicago) historic newspaper coverage
- Women’s Trade Union League primary source set
- Women’s Trade Union League (Chicago) historic newspaper coverage
More NHD 2017 CMHEC topic ideas (Illinois / Chicago focus)
NHD 2017 topic ideas (U.S., European, & World History)
NHD 2017: Selecting a Topic for a History Project
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