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This resource is a brief discussing Daniel Burnham's 1909 plan for the city of Chicago, as well as what was actually implemented.

After the 1945 publication of Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake's sociological classic, Black Metropolis, Parkway Community House launched a series of public forums to discuss issues raised in the book and shape debate about the future for Black…

Acrylic painting of woman with red hair in a yellow shirt on jagged Plexiglas in frame painted by the artist.

An mp3 file of the Theme Song for the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair, "In 1933"

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 12.6 x 17.7 cm, on mount 20.2 x 26.6 cm.

1984 by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)

Photograph depicting the Eastland Disater. On July 24, 1915, the Eastland, a passanger vessel, collapsed on the Chicago River at its dock due to being overweight and naturally topheavy. Of the 2,500 passangers and crew, 844 perished. The Reid Murdoch…

Original movie poster form His New Job, a movie filmed in Chicago and written and directed by Charles Chaplin in 1914. The movie was premiered on February 1, 1915. 

1980 comedy by John Landis, starring Dan Akroyd and John Belushi. Filmed and set in Chicago, the film also features performances from several famous r&b, blues, and soul musicians.

Ship model of a 'bugeye' displayed by E. James Tull at a fair exhibit for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. It won him a medal.