Library Guides: HIST 27707 Making Chicago: Chapters in the City's History: Websites on the syllabus

City of Chicago

Chicago Labor Trail
Chicago Jewish History
Bibliographies and digitized resources from Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago.
Drama of Haymarket
From the Chicago History Museum.
The Great Fire and the Web of Memory
From the Chicago History Museum.
History of Gangs in Chicago
A project affiliated with the Great Cities Institute at UIC.
Homicides in Chicago, 1870-1930
An interactive database from Northwestern University.
***Note the nice links to sites that track changes in street numbering.
The Urban Experience in Chicago Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
Primary sources (images, maps, etc.) narrative, timelines and more from UIC.
Chicago Workers in the 19th and Early 20th Century
From the Newberry Library.
Social Scientists Map Chicago
From the Map Collection, University of Chicago Library.

US Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection
Searchable database of photographs, 1906-1971, from the Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest.
Southside Chicago Documentation Project
Includes searchable full-text issues of South Street Journal (1993-2000), a bi-weekly community newspaper. A project of Columbia University's Center for Urban Research & Policy.
South Street Journal
Website of the current publication, with useful background information.
Pullman: Labor, Race and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town
From the Newberry Library.