Chicago History and Architecture Links

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ARCHITECTURE

Chicago's Only Castle
Preservation Chicago
Forgotten Chicago
Chicago Landmarks

Great Buildings- Chicago

National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places-Chicago

Chicago Architecture Foundation

The Chicago Athenaeum - Museum of Architecture and Design

American Institute of Architects- Chicago

City of Chicago

The Art Institute- Chicago Architects Oral History Project

Chicago Image Base (architecture, neighborhoods, events)

Perspectives Tour of Chicago's Landmarks

Chicago- A Tour of Buildings & City Streets in Vintage Postcards

Chicago's South Side

MIT- Boston Grads Go to Chicago
Inland Archictect Magazine (publishing since 1883)
Chicago Then and Now (photos of the same views)
Ivy Hill School - 3rd Grader's Chicago Landmark Project (Mrs. Bell's class)
Uptown Chicago

MAPS

University of Illinois at Chicago
Rand McNally Views of Chicago 1893

Encyclopedia of Chicago
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/700011.html

Chicago Landmarks - Maps of different sections of the city
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/Maps/Maps.html

Interactive Chicago Neighborhood Maps
http://rubloff.com/inside/maps_list.html

"The Plan of Chicago", 1909
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10537.html

CHICAGO'S WORLD FAIR OF 1893
THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION (& THE WHITE CITY)

http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Columbian/columbian.html
http://chicago.urban-history.org/sites/parks/w_city.htm
http://members.cox.net/academia/cassatt8.html

1893 Columbian Exposition

If you have a fascination for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, you'll enjoy this documentary narrated by Gene Wilder:
http://www.columbianexpo.com/

...and a perfect balance is Erik Larson's page turner, "The Devil In The White City," a blend of stories of the building of the 1893 Columbian Expo and the architects who accomplished it, with a serial killer on the loose! After hearing about the book for two years, I bought the documentary DVD and the book for my birthday this year. Great combination!
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/devilinthewhitecity/about.html

HISTORY

Encyclopedia of Chicago - Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Time Line from 1673
Chicago 1779-Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
The Thompson Plat of Chicago - 1830
History of Chicago

1844 Chicago Directory
The Illinois and Michigan Canal Coridor-1836
Deaths, Disturbances, Disasters, and Disorders in Chicago

Bridgeport

Rogers Park

Rogers Park / West Ridge Historical Society
The Haymarket Riots - 1886
The Haymarket Tragedy
The Maxwell Street Market

THE GREAT FIRE
The Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory
Chicago Timeline-- The Chicago Fire 1871
Chicago Fire - Image Base
The Chicago Fire

20TH CENTURY HISTORY

American Memories - Photos from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 (fabulous!)

The Iroquois Theater Fire of 1903

The Iroquois Theater Fire (Eastland Memorial Society)
The Eastland Disaster -1915

INSTITUTIONS
Chicago Fire Department History
Caxton Club of Chicago

WORLD'S FAIRS
The Columbian Expo- An Interactive Tour
Century of Progress International Exposition- 1933-34

SPORTS
Chicago Black Sox

MISCELLANEOUS
Graveyards of Chicago
The Photographs of Brian DeWolf

HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS
Chicago Historical Society
Hyde Park Historical Society

Illinois Labor History Society
Cook County ILGenWeb
DuPage County History
Kane County, Illinois History & Genealogy

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